Crossword-Solution: PUPATES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PUPATES | anagram | ASTEPUP, PASTEUP, TAPESUP |
We have 1 clue for the answer “PUPATES”
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| Undergoes a metamorphosis | 1 answer |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
TAAEG
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PUPATES (5)
When fully grown the maggot works its way through the hole in the host's skin, and falling to the ground pupates in some sheltered spot, the life cycle occupying about a year.
Similarly the Horse-bot escapes from the host's intestine with the excrement, and pupates on the ground.
When the grub is full fed it attaches the top of its body to a leaf, twig or other object and pupates.
Having attained its full growth as a caterpillar, it ties together two or three leaves with strands of silk, thus making a loose cocoon within which it pupates.
The growth of the parasitic larva does not stop the development of the host-larva, and when the latter pupates and assumes the winged form, the stylopid, which has completed its transformation, is carried to the outer world.
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Appears in: WSJ.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2001).