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Definition of Pupas
1. pupa [n] - See also: pupa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pupas
Literary usage of Pupas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. First and Second Report on the Noxious, Beneficial and Other Insects of the by Asa Fitch (1856)
"The WINGED FEMALES which come from these pupas are scarcely 0.06 in length, and
to the tips of their wings 0.10. They are black, the abdomen dull lurid ..."
2. Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction: Submitting Outline Plan by Virginia Dept. of public instruction (1911)
"... eggs and pupas, and although like most woodpeckers he takes a large part of
his food from decaying wood, yet he undoubtedly eats thousands of insects ..."
3. The Year-book of Education for by Henry Kiddle, Alexander J. Schem (1878)
"In this state, the changes in the school law, during the year 1877, were few and
unimportant, relating chiefly to the admission of non-resident pupas and ..."
4. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"Offers of ova, larvas, pupas, orif set imagines, Duplicates.—pupas—Marginatus (Umbra),
Mendica, Ochracea, ..."
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