Definition of Prepupa

1. a stage preceding the pupa [n -PAS or -PAE]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prepupa

prepubescents
prepublic
prepublication
prepublications
prepublicity
prepuces
prepueblo
prepulse
prepunch
prepunched
prepunches
prepunching
prepupa (current term)
prepupae
prepupal
prepupas
prepurchase
prepurchased
prepurchases
prepurchasing
preputial
prepyloric vein
prequalified
prequalifies
prequalify
prequalifying
prequantum

Literary usage of Prepupa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"The prepupa.—Usually the existence of an instar between the last larval one and the pupal instar is not recognized. But such a form exists; ..."

2. Bulletin by Maine Agricultural Experiment Station (1920)
"1 larva entered soil as a prepupa on August 7. 1 prepupa transformed to a pupa on August 12. 1 pupa emerged as an adult on August 20. ..."

3. Bulletin by Maine Agricultural Experiment Station (1917)
"The earlier prepupa is straight and can walk, but by the third day the body is strongly ... Color changes of the prepupa. In several species of this genus, ..."

4. Determinate Evolution in the Color-pattern of the Lady-beetles by Roswell Hill Johnson (1910)
"Subjection of the prepupa and pupa to an ordinary poultry incubator at 40° C. ... But an increase of pigment was obtained by exposing. the prepupa and pupa ..."

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