Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Coarctate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pupa \Pu"pa\, n.; pl. L. {Pup?}, E. {Pupas}. [L. pupa girl.
doll, puppet, fem. of pupus. Cf. {Puppet}.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis
which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago,
stage.
Note: Among insects belonging to the higher orders, as the
Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, the pupa is inactive
and takes no food; in the lower orders it is active and
takes food, and differs little from the imago except in
the rudimentary state of the sexual organs, and of the
wings in those that have wings when adult. The term
pupa is sometimes applied to other invertebrates in
analogous stages of development.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an
elongated spiral shell.
{Coarctate}, or {Obtected}, {pupa}, a pupa which is incased
in the dried-up skin of the larva, as in many Diptera.
{Masked pupa}, a pupa whose limbs are bound down and partly
concealed by a chitinous covering, as in Lepidoptera.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Coarct \Co*arct"\, Coarctate \Co*arc"tate\, v. t. [See
{Coarctate}, a.]
1. To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine
closely. [Obs.] --Bacon.
2. To restrain; to confine. [Obs.] --Ayliffe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Coarctate \Co*arc"tate\, a. [L. coarctatus, p. p. of coarctare
to press together; co- + arctare to press together, from
arctus, p. p. See {Arctation}.] (Zo["o]l.)
Pressed together; closely connected; -- applied to insects
having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a
constriction.
{Coarctate pupa} (Zo["o]l.), a pupa closely covered by the
old larval skin, as in most Diptera.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
coarctate
adj : (of an insect pupa) enclosed in a rigid case
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