chrysalid
Americannoun
adjective
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of chrysalid
1770–80; representing stem of Greek chrȳsallís chrysalis
Example Sentences
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Typical chrysalid hostess is short, black-haired Gloria Gooze, 20, refugee from movie ambitions.
From Time Magazine Archive
What we are able to declare is that the torpor is not very deep, inasmuch as the patient sometimes retains enough vitality to shed its skin and become a chrysalid.
From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
At this demand, the shriveled woman raised her bony form, flung off her rags, and grew tall and radiant, smiling as she broke forth from the dark chrysalid sheath.
From Christ in Flanders by Marriage, Ellen
Yes, my friend, I can live no longer this dull chrysalid life, in comparison with which, at times, even that past dark dream seems tolerable—for amid its lurid smoke were flashes of brightness.
From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Kingsley, Charles
He traced them from the worm to the chrysalid, in the cocoon, and thence to the moth; he found worms hatched from the eggs laid by these moths invariably developed the corpuscles.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
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