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Pupa vs Cacoon - What's the difference?

pupa | cacoon |

As a proper noun pupa

is .

As a noun cacoon is

the bean-like seed of a tropical vine (entada rheedii ), used as a hallucinogen and in traditional medicine, and made into jewelry.

pupa

Translingual

Noun

(head)
  • ; resembling an insect in its pupal stage of development.

    • Derived terms

    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * hirtipupa * pictipupa

    Related terms

    * Pupa ----

    cacoon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The bean-like seed of a tropical vine (Entada rheedii ), used as a hallucinogen and in traditional medicine, and made into jewelry.
    • (Webster 1913)