pupigerous

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  1. 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. In the other group [of dipterous insects], which are always pupigerous, the perfect insect escapes from the larval skin through a more or less circular opening. Stand. Nat. Hist., II. 406.

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  1. from New Latin pupa, pupa, + Latin gerere, carry.
 

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