释义 |
pupatepu‧pate /pjuːˈpeɪt $ ˈpjuːpeɪt/ verb [intransitive] technical  VERB TABLEpupate |
Present | I, you, we, they | pupate | | he, she, it | pupates | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | pupated | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have pupated | | he, she, it | has pupated | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had pupated | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will pupate | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have pupated |
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Present | I | am pupating | | he, she, it | is pupating | | you, we, they | are pupating | Past | I, he, she, it | was pupating | | you, we, they | were pupating | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been pupating | | he, she, it | has been pupating | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been pupating | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be pupating | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been pupating |
- As the year warms into summer, they pupate and turn into small greyish-black moths.
- Eventually, the larvae begin to pupate and no longer exude their chemical messages.
- Finally, in midsummer, the caterpillars pupate, creating a dark brown shell.
- In fact, eventually, it will crawl out of you and drop off, to pupate in the ground.
- It even sheds its coat periodically, and by the time it is born, it is able to pupate immediately.
- The females lay their eggs on milkweed and the caterpillars feed on these plants until they pupate, prior to emerging as butterflies.
- The last consideration that decides the form the lid should take is the needs of the caterpillars when they pupate.
- When the caterpillar is fully grown it usually hangs upside down from a leaf or plant stem, and begins to pupate.
to become a pupa |