Usually means: Hardened case of a pupa.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. puparium: Merriam-Webster
  2. puparium: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. puparium: Collins English Dictionary
  4. puparium: Wordnik
  5. puparium: Wiktionary
  6. Puparium: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. puparium: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. puparium: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (puparium)

▸ noun:  (entomology) An enclosing case of a pupa that is formed from the exoskeleton of an insect's final stage before pupation.

Similar:
pupariation, cocoon, pseudopupa, eclosure, chrysalis, subimago, eclosion, pupilage, pronymph, ptilinum, more...

Opposite:
adult stage, imago, eclosion

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Similar:
pupariation, cocoon, pseudopupa, eclosure, chrysalis, subimago, eclosion, pupilage, pronymph, ptilinum, more...

Opposite:
adult stage, imago, eclosion



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