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What is the adjective for pupae?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb pupate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

pupal
  1. (entomology) Of or pertaining to the pupa stage of insect metamorphosis.
  2. Examples:
    1. “These wasps parasitize the pupal life stage of house flies and, less successfully, stable flies.”
      “The rounded cuboidal shape of these cells is typically seen in undifferentiated lattice cells early in normal pupal retinal development.”
      “Several generations of garden webworms develop each season, the last of which may overwinter in the soil in the pupal stage.”
pupated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of pupate
pupating
  1. present participle of pupate
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