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  • English Word Pup Definition To bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine species.
  • English Word Pup/ Definition of Pupa
  • English Word Pupa Definition Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.
  • English Word Pupa Definition A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
  • English Word Pupal Definition Of or pertaining to a pupa, or the condition of a pupa.
  • English Word Pupas Definition of Pupa
  • English Word Pupate Definition To become a pupa.
  • English Word Pupation Definition the act of becoming a pupa.
  • English Word Pupe Definition A pupa.
  • English Word Pupelo Definition Cider brandy.
  • English Word Pupigerous Definition Bearing or containing a pupa; -- said of dipterous larvae which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them.
  • English Word Pupil Definition The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris.
  • English Word Pupil Definition A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.
  • English Word Pupil Definition A person under a guardian; a ward.
  • English Word Pupil Definition A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.
  • English Word Pupilage Definition The state of being a pupil.
  • English Word Pupillarity Definition The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females.
  • English Word Pupillary Definition Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward.
  • English Word Pupillary Definition Of or pertaining to the pupil of the eye.
  • English Word Pupillometer Definition An instrument for measuring the size of the pupil of the pupil of the eye.
  • English Word Pupipara Definition 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.
  • English Word Pupiparous Definition Bearing, or containing, a pupa; -- said of the matured larvae, or larval skins, of certain Diptera.
  • English Word Pupiparous Definition Of or pertaining to the Pupipara.
  • English Word Pupivora Definition A group of parasitic Hymenoptera, including the ichneumon flies, which destroy the larvae and pupae of insects.
  • English Word Pupivorous Definition Feeding on the pupae of insects.
  • English Word Puplican Definition Publican.
  • English Word Pupped Definition of Pup
  • English Word Puppet Definition A small image in the human form; a doll.
  • English Word Puppet Definition A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.
  • English Word Puppet Definition One controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; -- so used in contempt.