chrysalid

American  

[kris-uh-lid] / ˈkrɪs ə lɪd /

noun

1. a chrysalis.

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adjective

1. of a chrysalis.

chrysalid British  

/ ˈkrɪsəlɪd /

noun

1. another name for chrysalis

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adjective

1. of or relating to a chrysalis

Etymology

Origin of chrysalid

1770–80; representing stem of Greek chrȳsallís chrysalis

Example Sentences

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chrysalid

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Chrysalis has only the Latin plural, chrysalides; but chrysalid, which means the same as chrysalis, takes the English plural, chrysalids.

From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by John Hendricks Bechtel

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 Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

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