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What is the noun for pupae?

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pupa
  1. An insect in the development stage between larva and adult.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Once the snake's head contacted an ant larva or pupa, the snake maneuvered its head so that its mouth was positioned directly over the prey.”
      “A larva moves to the edge of a leaf before it pupates, and the leaf curls around the pupa.”
      “It is a pupiparous fly, giving birth to a single larva which quickly turns into a pupa.”
puparium
  1. The enclosing case of a pupa
  2. Examples:
    1. “I also found a couple black tenebrionid beetles hiding under debris and the empty puparium of a fly.”
      “The pupa-case, or puparium, is dark reddish-brown, and three lines in length.”
      “In about as many more days the puparium state would be entered, and in about six days more the fly or imago would appear.”
pupation
  1. The act or process of pupating.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The wild-type larval fat body normally does not dissociate until after pupation.”
      “When preparing for pupation, the hellgrammite emerges from the water and quickly moves across the earth's surface.”
      “The type of pupation site selected by larvae also affects pupal survival of D. melanogaster.”
pupadom
  1. The state of being a pupa.
puparia
  1. plural of puparium
  2. Examples:
    1. “Other louse flies overwinter as puparia presumably on or under the surface of the soil.”
      “Emergent flies were frozen, pinned with their respective puparia, and sent to specialists for identification.”
      “In southern Arizona, these flies exclusively use Arizona walnut, Juglans major, as a host plant, emerging between July and September from puparia in the soil.”
pupations
  1. plural of pupation
pupae
  1. plural of pupa
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Red stripe appears as a diffuse stripe of pigment on the dorsum of larvae and pupae and is variable in expressivity and penetrance.”
      “This allows progeny to be genotyped as pupae, since the guts of pupae carrying a green balancer fluoresce brightly.”
      “Researchers place cardboard rings containing red or blue marked corn borer pupae at release sites within cornfields.”
pupas
  1. plural of pupa
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Parasitismo de pupas de Argon lota Hewitson por Brachymeria pandora no Rio Grande do Sul.”
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