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Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage. Note: Among insects belonging to the higher orders, as the Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, the pupa is inactive and takes no food; in

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Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage. Note: Among insects belonging to the higher orders, as the Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, the pupa is inactive and takes no food; in the lower orders it is active and takes food, and differs little from the imago except in the rudimentary state of the sexual organs, and of the wings in those that have wings when adult. The term pupa is sometimes applied to other invertebrates in analogous stages of development.

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• INSECTATOR
  A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey.
• HIGHER-UP
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• STAGERY
  Exhibition on the stage.
• ADULTERATION
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• HIGHERING
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• ADULTERY
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• ADULTER
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• ADULTERIZE
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• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
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• ADULTEROUS
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• ADULT
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• INSECTION
  A cutting in; incisure; incision.
• WHICH
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• INSECTIVORA
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• WASTAGE
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• HOSTAGE
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