What is the meaning of Pupa?

  • (n.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
  • (n.) Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult or imago, stage.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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