2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell. Coarctate, or Obtected, pupa, a pupa which is incased in the dried-up skin of the larva, as in many Diptera. — Masked pupa, a pupa whose limbs are bound down and partly concealed by a chitinous covering, as in Lepidoptera.
PUPAL
Pu"pal, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to a pupa, or the condition of a pupa.
PUPATE
Pu"pate, v. i. (Zoöl.)
Defn: To become a pupa.
PUPATION
Pu*pa"tion, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: the act of becoming a pupa.
PUPE
Pupe, n. Etym: [F.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A pupa.