pupate

IPA/pjuːˈpeɪt/
IPA/ˈpjuːpeɪt/

pupate — 動詞

  • pupatepresent simple I / you / we / they
  • pupateshe / she / it
  • pupatedpast simple
  • pupating-ing form

1. to stop feeding as a larva and form a hard case around the body, inside which th

1.動詞不及物C1
釋義

化蛹

幼蟲停止進食並形成蛹的過程

to stop feeding as a larva and form a hard case around the body, inside which the insect changes into its adult form

例句

The caterpillar stopped eating and pupated inside a thin silk case.

那隻毛蟲停止進食，在薄絲繭中化蛹。

Joon's silkworms pupated after spinning their white cocoons in the box.

Joon 養的蠶在盒子裡吐絲結繭後化蛹。

silkworms pupate after spinning their cocoons

常見搭配
  • pupate underground
  • pupate in the soil
  • pupate inside a cocoon
  • larvae pupate
  • caterpillars pupate
同義詞
  • metamorphose

    broader — covers the entire transformation from egg to adult, not just the pupal stage

  • transform

    much broader — applies to any major change, not specific to insects

文法句型

[insect larva] + pupate

用法筆記

Subject is always an insect larva. Do not confuse with hatching (egg becoming larva) or emerging (adult leaving the pupa) — pupate only describes the larva-to-pupa transition.

常見錯誤

The egg pupated after three days.
The egg hatched after three days.
Pupate applies only to larvae entering the pupal stage, not to eggs.
The butterfly pupated from its chrysalis.
The butterfly emerged from its chrysalis.
Pupate means entering the pupal stage, not leaving it.

同根字

  • pupa
    名詞C1
  • pupation
    名詞C2
  • pupal
    形容詞C2

常見搭配

副詞搭配

  • eventually pupate
  • finally pupate

常用片語

  • pupate and emerge

介系詞搭配

  • pupate in
  • pupate inside
  • pupate beneath