Defn: A youth; a novice. [R.] Fuller.
PUOY
Puoy, n.
Defn: Same as Poy, n., 3.
PUP Pup, n. Etym: [See Puppy.] (Zoöl.) (a) A young dog; a puppy. (b) a young seal.
PUP
Pup, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pupped; p. pr. & vb. n. Pupping.]
Defn: To bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine species.
PUPA Pu"pa, n.; pl. L. Pup, E. Pupas. Etym: [L. pupa girl. doll, puppet, fem. of pupus. Cf. Puppet.]
1. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.
Note: Among insects belonging to the higher orders, as the Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, the pupa is inactive and takes no food; in the lower orders it is active and takes food, and differs little from the imago except in the rudimentary state of the sexual organs, and of the wings in those that have wings when adult. The term pupa is sometimes applied to other invertebrates in analogous stages of development.