Index of English words, starting with "pu"

(1) - Pupa (n.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
(2) - Pupa (n.) Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.

(1) - Pupate (v. i.) To become a pupa.

(1) - Pupation (n.) the act of becoming a pupa.

(1) - Pupil (n.) A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.
(2) - Pupil (n.) A person under a guardian; a ward.
(3) - Pupil (n.) A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.
(4) - Pupil (n.) The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris.