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  • adjective Waiting to emerge from a cocoon.
  • adjective of an animal In transition between stages of development.

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Examples

  • Yamashita O (1983) Purification and some properties of soluble trehalase from midgut of pharate adult of the silkworm,

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jie Chen et al. 2010

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