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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of pupate.

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Examples

  • The larva would have pupated in the stump and emerged on the threshold of summer to find a mate.

    Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2011

  • Under the ministrations of western novelists, he pupated into the seductive, cape-wearing aristocrat of modern myth.

    Religion news roundup: Scientology, religion trends, Islam, Gwen Shamblin, and more 2009

  • The remaining maggots that once powered his last few blurtings have all pupated and flown away.

    Bill O'Reilly tries to work his gruesome magic on Barney Frank. Ann Althouse 2008

  • The story takes place in world where senators have their own black-opts division and directly employ more than 20,000 people, a world where the USA constitution has been superseded by NAFTA, a world where people can be pupated by rogue AI.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Aaron M. Wilson 2007

  • The catepillar had pupated and turned into a gigantic moth.

    Guilt. Angry Professor 2006

  • These enable the caddis pupa to bite its way out of the shortened larval case in which it has pupated, and then to swim upwards through the water ready for the caddis-fly's emergence into the air.

    The Life-Story of Insects 1902

  • This female laid eggs the caterpillars from which fed and pupated.

    The Life-Story of Insects 1902

  • Two days later it stopped travelling, and pupated on the top of the now hardened earth in the bucket that contained the other two.

    Moths of the Limberlost Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • Having occasion to move it on the twentyfourth, I peeped in and found half my caterpillars out and starved, proving that they had been hatched at least thirty-six hours or longer; half the others so feeble they soon became inactive, and the remainder survived and pupated.

    Moths of the Limberlost Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • Those that pupated on the ground had left their skins at the thorax, and lay two inches from them.

    Moths of the Limberlost Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

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