Crossword-Solution: PUPA 4 letters, 118 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Pupa	n.	Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.
Pupa	n.	A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
PUPA	anagram	APUP, PAUP

We have 118 clues for the answer “PUPA”

Clue	Answers
"Caterpillar into chrysalis, or ___. From thence into beauty": Hannibal Lecter	1 answer
After larva	1 answer
Between larva and imago	1 answer
Butterfly-to-be, while in a cocoon	1 answer
Chrysalis inhabitant	1 answer
Chrysalis, e.g.	1 answer
Chrysalis, for example	1 answer
Cocoon occupier	1 answer
Cocoon stage	1 answer
Cocoon's content	1 answer
Cocoon, for example	1 answer
Cocoon-bound bug	1 answer
Cocoon-stage insect	1 answer
Cocoon-stage moth	1 answer
Cocooned stage	1 answer
Contents of a cocoon.	1 answer
Growth stage in a cocoon	1 answer
Imago-in-training	1 answer
Imago-to-be	1 answer
Immature butterfly	1 answer
Immobile insect	1 answer
Inactive stage of an insect's life (4)	1 answer
India's neighbor (Abbr.)	1 answer
Infant insects	1 answer
Insect development stage	1 answer
Insect in a cocoon	1 answer
Insect in a cocoon or chrysalis, e.g.	1 answer
Insect in its cocoon	1 answer
Insect in the post-larval stage	1 answer
Insect in transition	1 answer
Insect reproductive stage	1 answer
Insect stage after larva	1 answer
Insect stage following the larva.	1 answer
Insect's quiescent stage	1 answer
LARVA, next form of	1 answer
Larva successor	1 answer
Larva's descendant	1 answer
Larva's elder	1 answer
Larva, later	1 answer
Larval stage	1 answer
Life in a cocoon	1 answer
Life stage originally represented by the circled letters, prior to metamorphosis	1 answer
Maturing mosquito	1 answer
Mosquito "tumbler", e.g.	1 answer
Moth life stage	1 answer
Moth's cocoon phase	1 answer
Occupant of a cocoon.	1 answer
One no longer crawling	1 answer
One-time larva	1 answer
Part of a life transformation	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TEERA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with PUPA (5)

The larva makes and carries about a bag or basketÐlike case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females.

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

What can the Clotho do with a _Pupa cinerea_, a _Pupa quadridens_ and other narrow spirals wherein the animal retreats to an inaccessible depth? The Spider is incapable of breaking the calcareous shell or of getting at the hermit through the opening.

The Life of the Spider J. Henri Fabre 1999

The experiments showed very clearly that the colour and character of the surface on which the pupa rests--and thus its own conspicuousness--are of the greatest importance.

Darwin and Modern Science A.C. Seward and Others 1999

Certain animals belonging to several classes are now known to have the power of ordinary reproduction at an unusually early age; and we have only to accelerate parthenogenetic reproduction by gradual steps to an earlier and earlier age—Chironomus showing us an almost exactly intermediate stage, viz., that of the pupa—and we can perhaps account for the marvellous case of the Cecidomyia.

On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin 1999

COCOON.—A case usually of silky material, in which insects are frequently enveloped during the second or resting-stage (pupa) of their existence.

On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin 1999

Quotes with PUPA (3)

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

William James A Pluralistic Universe

A metamorphosis... The shining butterfly of the soul from the pupa of the body. Larva, pupa, imago. An image of art.

A. S. Byatt The Virgin in the Garden

The caterpillar becomes a pupa to meditate and then becomes a butterfly

Ankala V Subbarao

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 149 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).