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Pup [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A puppy.

Pup [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine species.

Pup [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A young dog; a puppy.

2. a young seal.

Pup [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine species.

Pup/ [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Pupa

Pupa [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In natural history, an insect in that state in which it resembles an infant in swaddling clothes. As some insects in this state have a bright exterior, as if gilded, it has been called chrysalis or aurelia, from the Gr. and Latin aurum, gold; but as this gilded appearance belongs to few insects, the term pupa is now more generally used.

Pupa [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.

2. A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.

Pupal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to a pupa, or the condition of a pupa.

Pupas [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Pupa

Pupate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To become a pupa.

Pupation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

the act of becoming a pupa.

Pupe [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A pupa.

Pupelo [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cider brandy.

Pupigerous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Bearing or containing a pupa; -- said of dipterous larvae which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them.

Pupil [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The apple of the eye; a little aperture in the middle of the iris and uvea of the eye, through which the rays of light pass to the crystalline humor, to be painted on the retina.

2. A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.

3. A ward; a youth or person under the care of a guardian.

4. In the civil law, a boy or girl under the age of puberty, that is, under 14 if a male, and under 12 if a female.

Pupil [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris.

2. A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.

3. A person under a guardian; a ward.

4. A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.

Pupilage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The state of being a scholar, or under the care of an instructor for education and discipline.

2. Wardship; minority.

3. In this latter sense, the Scots use pupilarity.

Pupilage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state of being a pupil.

Pupilary [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to a pupil or ward.

Pupillarity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females.

Pupillary [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward.

2. Of or pertaining to the pupil of the eye.

Pupillometer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An instrument for measuring the size of the pupil of the pupil of the eye.

Pupipara [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A division of Diptera in which the young are born in a stage like the pupa. It includes the sheep tick, horse tick, and other parasites. Called also Homaloptera.

Pupiparous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Bearing, or containing, a pupa; -- said of the matured larvae, or larval skins, of certain Diptera.

2. Of or pertaining to the Pupipara.

Pupivora [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A group of parasitic Hymenoptera, including the ichneumon flies, which destroy the larvae and pupae of insects.

Pupivorous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Feeding on the larvas and chrysalides of insects.

Pupivorous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Feeding on the pupae of insects.