Pupa is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 16 anagrams from letters in pupa (appu).
1765-70; New Latin, special use of Latin pūpa girl, doll, puppet. See pupil1, puppet
pupate, pupation: to become a pupa: the act of becoming a pupa.
The pupa, or chrysalis, we have found in the cells the last of July.
Gasterotheca: that part of the pupa case that covers the abdomen.
The animal in this state is known as the pupa (Figs. 145 and 146).
Pselaphotheca: that part of the pupa which covers the palpi.
Stomatotheca: that part of the pupa covering the mouth structures.
This mask (Fig. 127) is peculiar to the young, or larva and pupa of the Dragon fly.
When the insect is about to assume the pupa state, it moults its skin.
Podotheca: that part of pupa that covers the legs of future adult.
Pre-pupal: that stage in the larva just preceding the change to pupa.