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A New Latin coinage from pūpa (“pupa”, originally “little girl; doll”) + -ārium (“place”), equivalent to English pupa + -arium.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: An enclosing case of a pupa that is formed from the exoskeleton of an insect's final stage before pupation. Full definition →
A New Latin coinage from pūpa (“pupa”, originally “little girl; doll”) + -ārium (“place”), equivalent to English pupa + -arium.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.