Dictionary Workbench Ondict

pupate

Dictionary entry view. Switch to definition mode above when you know the meaning but not the word.

pupate

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++pu·pate /pjuːˈpeɪt $ ˈpjuːpeɪt/ verb [intransitive] technical  to become a pupa 化蛹,变成蛹→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
pupateThe last consideration that decides the form the lid should take is the needs of the caterpillars when they pupate.When the caterpillar is fully grown it usually hangs upside down from a leaf or plant stem, and begins to pupate.Eventually, the larvae begin to pupate and no longer exude their chemical messages.As the year warms into summer, they pupate and turn into small greyish-black moths.Finally, in midsummer, the caterpillars pupate, creating a dark brown shell.It even sheds its coat periodically, and by the time it is born, it is able to pupate immediately.In fact, eventually, it will crawl out of you and drop off, to pupate in the ground.The females lay their eggs on milkweed and the caterpillars feed on these plants until they pupate, prior to emerging as butterflies.
pu·pate verbChineseSyllable
a Corpus become to pupa


pupate
pupate /pjuːˈpeɪt $ ˈpjuːpeɪt/ verb [intransitive] technical
to become a pupa


pu·pateBrE /pjuːˈpeɪt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈpjuːpeɪt/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they pupate BrE /pjuːˈpeɪt/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈpjuːpeɪt/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it pupates BrE /pjuːˈpeɪts/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈpjuːpeɪts/ 🔊past simple pupated BrE /pjuːˈpeɪtɪd/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈpjuːpeɪtɪd/ 🔊past participle pupated BrE /pjuːˈpeɪtɪd/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈpjuːpeɪtɪd/ 🔊 -ing form pupating BrE /pjuːˈpeɪtɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈpjuːpeɪtɪŋ/ 🔊 [intransitive] (biology 生物) to develop into a pupa 化蛹