"Seminymph" is a word in ENGLISH
The pupa of insects which undergo only a slight change
in passing to the imago state.
Sydney, don't leave Adrian because of me.""It's more complicated than that," I said automatically."It's really not," she said. "From everything I've seen and heard, you're just afraid. You've always controlled every detail of your life. When you couldn't-like with the Alchemists-you found a way to seize back that control.""There is nothing wrong with wanting control," I snapped."Except that we can't always have it, and sometimes that is a good thing. A great thing, even," she added. "And that's how it is with Adrian. No matter how hard you try, you aren't going to be able to control your feelings for him. You can't help loving him, and so you're running away. I'm just an excuse.
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One of the small white egg-shaped pupae or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly …
Read the complete definitionThe chrysalis, or pupa of an insect, esp. when reflecting a brilliant golden color, as that of some of the …
Read the complete definitionThe pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies, from which the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a).
Read the complete definitionThe case constructed by any insect to contain its larva or pupa.
Read the complete definitionThe act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a …
Read the complete definitionAny young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During …
Read the complete definitionA change in the form or function of a living organism, by a natural process of growth or development; as, …
Read the complete definitionAny one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, …
Read the complete definitionHaving some resemblance to a mummy; -- in zoology, said of the pupae of certain insects.
Read the complete definitionThe pupa of an insect; a chrysalis.
Read the complete definitionProducing pupas or nymphs.
Read the complete definitionCovered with a hard chitinous case, as the pupa of certain files.
Read the complete definitionAny one of several species of beetles whose larvae gnaw the branches of trees so as to cause them to …
Read the complete definitiondivision of insects (Zool.) reticulated wings, as in the Neuroptera, but having an active pupa state. It includes the dragon …
Read the complete definitionA stage intermediate between the larva and pupa of bees and certain other hymenopterous insects.
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Read the complete definitionpúpa n {1} stern of boats. {2} = apúpa. v {1} [A] go toward the stern. Mipúpa ang hángin, The …
Read the complete definitionA genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
Read the complete definitionAny insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to a pupa, or the condition of a pupa.
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