Usually means: Developmental stage between larva, adult.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. pupal: Merriam-Webster
  2. pupal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pupal: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pupal: Vocabulary.com
  5. pupal: Wordnik
  6. pupal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pupal: Wiktionary
  8. Pupal, pupal: Dictionary.com
  9. Pupal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Pupal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. pupal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. pupal: Rhymezone
  13. Pupal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. pupal: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pupal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Pupal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pupal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pupal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. pupal: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pupal)

▸ adjective:  (entomology) Of or pertaining to the pupa stage of insect metamorphosis.

Similar:
immature, pupigerous, prepupal, necromorphous, pharate, adecticous, ametabolian, epimorphic, pteropleural, teneral, more...

Opposite:
adult, larval, nymphal, embryonic

Types:
chrysalis, cocoon, more...

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Similar:
immature, pupigerous, prepupal, necromorphous, pharate, adecticous, ametabolian, epimorphic, pteropleural, teneral, more...

Opposite:
adult, larval, nymphal, embryonic

Types:
chrysalis, cocoon, more...



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