- Caterpillar casing
- Cosy warm covering
- One company after another takes on protective cover
- Protect clown on silky casing
- Protective cover
- Protective sheath
- pupa case
- Butterfly pupa
- Pupa
- pupa case
- The pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies,
from which the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a).
- Covered; protected.
- Covered with a hard chitinous case, as the pupa of
certain files.
- The act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular
layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as,
the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation.