insect vs pupa

insect and pupa both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
insect	Yes	No	No	No
pupa	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, pupa is a hyponym of insect; that is, pupa is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than insect:

insect: small air-breathing arthropod
pupa: an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult

Other hyponyms of insect include social insect, ephemeral, ephemeron, holometabola, metabola, defoliator, pollinator, gallfly, mecopteran, collembolan, springtail, proturan, telsontail, beetle, web spinner, louse, sucking louse, bird louse, biting louse, louse, flea, dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects, leaf-miner, leaf miner, hymenopter, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect, worker, termite, white ant, orthopteran, orthopteron, orthopterous insect, phasmid, phasmid insect, dictyopterous insect, bug, bug, hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect, heteropterous insect, homopteran, homopterous insect, psocopterous insect, ephemerid, ephemeropteran, plecopteran, stone fly, stonefly, neuropteran, neuropteron, neuropterous insect, odonate, trichopteran, trichopteron, trichopterous insect, thysanuran insect, thysanuron, thysanopter, thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect, earwig, lepidopteran, lepidopteron, lepidopterous insect, imago, queen.

insect (noun)	pupa (noun)
small air-breathing arthropod	an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult
a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

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