Definition of Pupating

1. Verb. (present participle of pupate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pupating

1. pupate [v] - See also: pupate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pupating

punyism
pup
pup tent
pupa
pupadom
pupae
pupal
pupaphobia
puparia
puparial
puparium
pupas
pupate
pupated
pupates
pupating (current term)
pupation
pupations
pupelo
pupet regime
pupfish
pupfishes
pupigerous
pupilage
pupilages
pupilar
pupilary
pupiless
pupilesses

Literary usage of Pupating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1916)
"It occasionally repeats this plugging, pursuing its way until winter overtakes it, and pupating within its burrow from the middle to the latter part of the ..."

2. The Review of Applied Entomology by Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, Imperial Bureau of Entomology (1916)
"... L., live and feed in fir-cones, in which they winter, pupating in the next spring. In the Baltic provinces, fir-cones are also attacked by Dioryctria ..."

3. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1903)
"... pupating under baric.—On March 8th of last year, as I was pulling bits of bark and wood off a rotten birchwood post, a chrysalis of 8. ..."

4. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1908)
"Before pupating, the para- •• in the now dead and elongate larva securely fastens the Utt • to some ..."

5. A Monograph of the British Phytophagous Hymenoptera by Peter Cameron (1882)
"pupating in stems, never with lines down the back; generally dark green on the back and ... losing the exudation and becoming pale green before pupating. ..."

6. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"Their experiments had been on seasonally dimorphic species, and tended to show that temperature so applied, only operated on the summer-pupating form, ..."

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