pupa
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 4
Definition of pupa
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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An insect in the development stage between larva and adult.
“The public is the pupae of the purposely purblind […]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin, from a special use of Latin pūpa (“little girl; doll, puppet”). Doublet of pupe; compare also puppet, puppy.
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