pupate
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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Present
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pupatesimple
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pupatessimple
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have pupatedperfect
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has pupatedperfect
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am pupatingprogressive
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are pupatingprogressive
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is pupatingprogressive
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have been pupatingperfect progressive
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has been pupatingperfect progressive
Past
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pupatedsimple
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had pupatedperfect
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was pupatingprogressive
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were pupatingprogressive
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had been pupatingperfect progressive
Future
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Origin of pupate
Vocabulary lists containing pupate
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The infestation cycle continues when the maggots emerge 10 days later, drop from the fruit and burrow two to three centimeters into the dirt to pupate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024
Warmer springs mean that caterpillars hatch, grow and pupate earlier compared with just a few decades ago.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2023
They’re growing out of a butterfly larva, now dead, that had buried itself in the soil to pupate.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
The flies lay eggs on the lake surface, producing larvae that swim down to the microbialites, where they pupate before maturing into adults.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 9, 2022
He’s working on something else: a growth hormone that will throw their systems out of whack and make them pupate before they’re supposed to.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
After the glowworm reaches maturity, it spins a cocoon and pupates.
From Scientific American ● May 21, 2012
Ms. Kassinger witnesses the exact moment a caterpillar pupates.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2010
Later in April it pupates, and its habits accord in general with those of Pissodes strobi.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
Similarly the Horse-bot escapes from the host's intestine with the excrement, and pupates on the ground.
From The Life-Story of Insects by Carpenter, George H. (George Herbert)
A sham fruit filled with sham seeds; each seed-like growth contains a grub, which later in the season pupates and eats its way out, a winged insect.
From The Breath of Life by Burroughs, John
But he had not himself, at that stage, fully pupated himself into a committed Salafi jihadist.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2011
Thus the Technical Alliance was transmogrified into Technocracy and Howard Scott, Greenwich Village character, pupated into the Technocrat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Different caterpillars developed on different timetables, however: some became adults within weeks, some pupated the entire winter.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
When the fly eggs hatched, its larvae fed on the moth pupa, pupated into flies, and flew away.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
Those I kept in confinement pupated on a bed of baked gravel, in a tin bucket.
From Moths of the Limberlost by Stratton-Porter, Gene
At a prelaunch briefing, ESA Director of Science Günther Hasinger said it was like “a pupating butterfly unfurling its golden wings.”
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 25, 2021
Like all beetles, the firefly cycles through a complete metamorphosis—hatching from its egg as a crawling larva before pupating into a mature adult.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 15, 2021
This was the moment when New York, pupating into a modernist capital, contained all the other buzz-word News-new woman, new paganism, new verse, the New Negro and the New Republic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Likewise, when Dali the Surrealist was pupating, there was hardly a trope in his pictures of 1927-28 that didn't come out of Andre Masson, Ernst, Miro or Yves Tanguy.
From Time Magazine Archive
If a caterpillar died before pupating, there was no guarantee they would be able to find that particular species again—or its host plant—in the riot of vegetation.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
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