chrysalis
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- noun
- /ˈkrɪsəlɪs/
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- Caterpillar into chrysalis or pupa, and from thence into beauty.
- emerging from a chrysalis
Just like the Caterpillar produces and consumes and before it spins its chrysalis.
- Just like the Caterpillar produces and consumes and before it spins its chrysalis.
- Unleash your creativity like a butterfly unleashes its wings after breaking through from the chrysalis.
- And, you know, that chrysalis was like that death was like I was melted into goo.
- The caterpillars will hatch, they'll eat, they'll turn into these again, you know, very stunning green chrysalis.
- A Kingfisher hush back into the chrysalis he sang to us from.
Examples
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Like other types of pupae, the chrysalis stage in most butterflies is one in which there is little movement.
Blog text (14) -
Here, the uprising is depicted as a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis.
Academic text (2000) -
A chrysalis is just forming around you.
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A chrysalis is the transition state between caterpillar and butterfly.
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For weeks, I waited inside the cozy, warm chrysalis.
Academic text (1990) -
When an elder becomes a chrysalis, she has younger siblings and children of siblings to protect her until she emerges to fly.
Fiction book (2002) -
Wikipedia says: "A chrysalis ... is the pupal stage of butterflies ...
Blog text (14) -
Do you not remember Bio-101, where butterflies fresh from the chrysalis pump body fluids?
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People put milkweed in the cages for them to attach to, but she also puts these sticks in for them to climb 'cause some of them attach to the top part of the mesh when they form the chrysalis, and hang upside-down.
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When the butterfly comes out of the chrysalis, its wings are soft and crumpled.
Synonyms
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A stage when an insect is inactive and changes into an adult
How Protective
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chrysalis comes from the Greek chrysos, meaning 'gold', because some butterfly pupae have a shiny, golden look. That's why chrysalis is the name for the hard case where a caterpillar rests and changes into a butterfly.