English edit

Etymology edit

semi- +‎ pupa

Noun edit

semipupa (plural semipupae)

  1. (zoology) The young of an insect in a stage between larva and pupa.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for semipupa”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)