| pup | To bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine species. Origin: Pupped; Pupping. <zoology> A young dog; a puppy. A young seal. See: Puppy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| pupa | Origin: L. Pupa girl. Doll, puppet, fem. Of pupus. Cf. Puppet. 1. <zoology> Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage. Among insects belonging to the higher orders, as the Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, the pupa is inactive and takes no food; in the lower orders it is active and takes food, and differs little from the imago except in the rudimentary state of the sexual organs, and of the wings in those that have wings when adult. The term pupa is sometimes applied to other invertebrates in analogous stages of development. 2. <zoology> A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell. Coarctate, or Obtected, pupa, a pupa which is incased in the dried-up skin of the larva, as in many Diptera. Masked pupa, a pupa whose limbs are bound down and partly concealed by a chitinous covering, as in Lepidoptera. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pupal | <zoology> Of or pertaining to a pupa, or the condition of a pupa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pupate | <zoology> To become a pupa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pupation | <zoology> The act of becoming a pupa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pupe | <zoology> A pupa. Origin: F. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pupigerous | <zoology> Bearing or containing a pupa; said of dipterous larvae which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them. Origin: Pupa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pupil | 1. A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor. "Too far in years to be a pupil now." (Shak) "Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils." (L'Estrange) 2. A person under a guardian; a ward. 3. A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female. Synonym: Learner, disciple, tyro. See Scholar. Origin: F. Pupille, n. Masc. & fem, L. Pupillus, pupilla, dim. Of pupus boy, pupa girl. See Puppet, and cf. Pupil of the eye. <anatomy> The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris. <medicine> Pin-hole pupil, the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole. Origin: F. Pupille, n. Fem, L. Pupilla the pupil of the eye, originally dim. Of pupa a girl. See Puppet, and cf. Pupil a scholar. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pupilla | Synonym: pupil. Origin: L. Dim. Of pupa, a girl or doll (05 Mar 2000) |
| pupillarity | The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females. Origin: Cf. F. Pupillarite. See Pupillary. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pupillary | 1. Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward. 2. <anatomy> Of or pertaining to the pupil of the eye. Origin: L. Pupillaris: cf. F.pupillaire. See Pupil. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pupillary axis | A line perpendicular to the surface of the cornea, passing through the centre of the pupil; the "direction of gaze." (05 Mar 2000) |
| pupillary block glaucoma | Glaucoma secondary to failure of the aqueous humor to pass through the pupil to the anterior chamber. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pupillary border of iris | The inner border of the iris that forms the edge of the pupil. Synonym: margo pupillaris iridis, pupillary margin of iris. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pupillary dilation | <ophthalmology> The action of stretching or enlarging the pupil for example by atropine. (18 Nov 1997) |