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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the pupa contained within the last larval skin; forming a puparium, as most dipterous insects; coarctate, as a pupa. See larva pupigera, under larva.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Bearing or containing a pupa; -- said of dipterous larvæ which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them.

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  • adjective Containing a pupa.

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