pupating
- present participle of pupate.
Example Sentences
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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
