meaning of pupa

1. Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.
2.
A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
3.
an insect in the inactive stage of development when it is not feeding intermediate between larva and adult


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