The insect grew out of a pupa into an imago.
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Pupa
//ˈpjuːpə//
Synonyms for "pupa" (6 found)
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6 entriesTranslations
61 translations across 50 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- krizalidë noun (insect)
Arabic
2 entries- خَادِرَة noun (insect)
- شَرْنَقَة noun (insect)
Armenian
1 entries- հարսնյակ noun (insect)
Belarusian
2 entries- ку́калка noun (insect)
- ля́лечка noun (insect)
Bengali
1 entries- পিউপা noun (insect)
Bulgarian
1 entries- какавида noun (insect)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 蛹 noun (insect)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- qozalaq noun (insect)
Czech
1 entries- kukla noun (insect)
Danish
1 entries- puppe noun (insect)
Dutch
1 entries- pop noun (insect)
Esperanto
1 entries- pupo noun (insect)
Estonian
1 entries- nukk noun (insect)
Finnish
1 entries- kotelo noun (insect)
French
2 entries- chrysalide noun (insect)
- nymphe noun (insect)
Georgian
1 entries- ჭუპრი noun (insect)
German
1 entries- Puppe noun (insect)
Greek
1 entries- χρυσαλλίδα noun (insect)
Hebrew
2 entries- גֹּלֶם noun (insect)
- גולם noun (insect)
Hindi
1 entries- प्यूपा noun (insect)
Hungarian
1 entries- báb noun (insect)
Icelandic
1 entries- púpa noun (insect)
Indonesian
1 entries- kepompong noun (insect)
Italian
1 entries- pupa noun (insect)
Japanese
1 entries- 蛹 noun (insect)
Korean
1 entries- 번데기 noun (insect)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- куурчакча noun (insect)
Latvian
1 entries- kūniņa noun (insect)
Lithuanian
1 entries- lėliukė noun (insect)
Malay
1 entries- pupa noun (insect)
Mongolian
1 entries- авгалдай noun (insect)
Māori
1 entries- tūngoungou noun (insect)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- puppe noun (insect)
Persian
1 entries- شفیره noun (insect)
Polish
1 entries- poczwarka noun (insect)
Portuguese
1 entries- pupa noun (insect)
Romanian
1 entries- pupă noun (insect)
Russian
2 entries- ку́колка noun (insect)
- хризали́да noun (insect)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- kukùljica noun (insect)
- lȕtka noun (insect)
- куку̀љица noun (insect)
- лу̏тка noun (insect)
Slovak
1 entries- kukla noun (insect)
Slovene
1 entries- buba noun (insect)
Spanish
1 entries- crisálida noun (insect)
Swedish
1 entries- puppa noun (insect)
Tagalog
1 entries- tilas noun (insect)
Thai
1 entries- ดักแด้ noun (insect)
Turkish
3 entries- kavırçak noun (insect)
- krizalit noun (insect)
- pupa noun (insect)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ля́лечка noun (insect)
Uzbek
1 entries- gʻumbak noun (insect)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nhộng noun (insect)
Welsh
2 entries- chwiler noun (insect)
- pwpa noun (insect)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The metamorphosis of insects, which I have previously mentioned as one of their most essential attributes, consists of four distinct stages, viz., the Egg, Larva, Pupa, and Imago.
Source: tatoeba (11977504)
From the egg is hatched the larva, grub, or caterpillar, which is destitute of wings; this afterwards changes to a pupa, or crysalis, wholly covered with a hard shell, or strong skin, from which the perfect or winged insect, bursts forth.
Source: tatoeba (12130929)
The public is the pupae of the purposely purblind […]
Source: wiktionary
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