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noun

  • An insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult. .
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
  • (n.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
  • (n.) Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult or imago, stage.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary