Usually means: Covered or concealed; pupal stage.
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  3. obtect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. obtect: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. obtect: Wiktionary
  7. obtect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. obtect: Infoplease Dictionary
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  10. Obtect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. obtect: FreeDictionary.org
  12. obtect: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (entomology, of a pupa) Having the legs and other appendages more or less strongly cemented to the body.

Similar:
consute, glued-up, amplectant, carnate, casebearing, imped, agglutinate, embedded, fixed, accrete, more...

Opposite:
patent, exposed, uncovered, unprotected

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Similar:
consute, glued-up, amplectant, carnate, casebearing, imped, agglutinate, embedded, fixed, accrete, more...

Opposite:
patent, exposed, uncovered, unprotected



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