chrysalid

[ kris-uh-lid ]

noun

1. a chrysalis.

adjective

1. of a chrysalis.

chrysalid

/ ˈkrɪsəlɪd /

noun

1. another name for chrysalis

adjective

1. of or relating to a chrysalis

Word History and Origins

Origin of chrysalid¹

1770–80; representing stem of Greek chrȳsallís chrysalis

Example Sentences

Chrysalis, kris′a-lis, Chrysalid, kris′a-lid, n. a term originally applied to the golden-coloured resting stages in the life-history of many butterflies, but sometimes extended to all forms of pup� or nymphs: the shell whence the insect comes:—pl.

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For he loved, as an East Indian, physical flowers as he did poetic ones, and to him in December a book of flowers was a gently waving flowery lawn, and a catalogus of carnation leaves was to him the hull and chrysalid of summer.

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Typical chrysalid hostess is short, black-haired Gloria Gooze, 20, refugee from movie ambitions.

From Time Magazine Archive

He stood up and ended the chrysalid's strugglings with a bolt from his heat-gun before extending a hand to help Farrell up.

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"A chrysalid," Stryker said, bending to gauge the damage Farrell's heavy boot had done.

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