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
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 Ellen Marriage
With plenty of faculty, Letty had not yet emerged from the chrysalid condition; she lived much as one in a dream, with whose dream mingle sounds and glimmers from the waking world.
From Mary Marston by George MacDonald
"A chrysalid," Stryker said, bending to gauge the damage Farrell's heavy boot had done.
From Pet Farm by Roger D. Aycock
One might, perhaps, get a hint by watching the living chrysalid of a potential moon-moth wriggle back into its cocoon—but little is to be learned from human teaching.
From Edge of the Jungle by William Beebe
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