Chrysalis is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CHRYSALIS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a pupa, esp. of a moth or butterfly, enclosed in a firm case or cocoon, also CHRYSALID
• a quiescent insect pupa, especially of a butterfly or moth
• the hard outer case enclosing a chrysalis
• a transitional state
• insect in the stage between larva and adult, when it is in a cocoon
• The pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies, from which the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a).
• pupa of a moth or butterfly enclosed in a cocoon
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a pupa of a butterfly; broadly; an insect pupa; the hardened outer protective layer of a pupa

Words related to CHRYSALIS

chrysalides20 chrysalises19

Words that contain CHRYSALIS

chrysalises19

How to use CHRYSALIS in a sentence

• Many calamities had fallen upon them during the five centuries before the chrysalis formed.
• He must shake himself free of the last clinging bit of chrysalis of the old life.
• So long as her body did not move, it ceased to exist altogether and set her spirit free, like a pale-winged luna moth from its chrysalis to adventure into the night.
• These sturdy fellows were then in a rough enough chrysalis of uniform.
• One great Turnus, that I brought with me in the chrysalis, that hatched out while I was at Jefferson.
• In every Italian school the butterfly breaks loose from the chrysalis.
• On the eventful evening each rag chrysalis would burst into a full-blown butterfly curl.
• To any remoter period her memory did not extend, and she implied that she had been before that time in a chrysalis or non-existent condition.
• Then she had him moved up close to the glowing stove, like a huge chrysalis to be hatched by the heat.
• Dudley found it was a beautiful green chrysalis, suspended by its silken cords to the vine.
• Dudley took the chrysalis from the vine and carried it to the house, and put it on the mantle in her room.
• The opening became wider and wider, and one day, when Eddie came into the room and went as usual to look at the chrysalis, the shell was empty! The butterfly had escaped.
• Rodney, although struggling through this chrysalis stage to the later vigor, and seriously bent on a deadly blow, still was constrained by the traditions of watchful fencing.
• They tell us that just as the caterpillar passes into the chrysalis, and the chrysalis into the butterfly, so profligacy passes into disgust, and disgust passes into religion.
• Besides, it is conceivable that the chrysalis may get weary of his case, and mine is not a silken one.
• A familiar example is furnished by the cases of the caterpillar and the chrysalis.
• The chrysalis is represented in the figure on the left.
• What is meant by Chrysalis? The second state into which the insect passes before it comes to be a butterfly.
• He lay in a chrysalis of red blanket, his head tipped back on a bundle of sailcloth, his face to the stars.
• One authority states that the Bushmen of the western Kalahari use the juice of a chrysalis which they scrape out of the ground.
• These, after passing through a chrysalis state, develop into the violet flies.
• WINTER-STORE Subtly conscious, all awake, Let us clear our eyes, and break Through the cloudy chrysalis, See the wonder as it is.
• Only the discovery which in Europe at once takes life and birth, and becomes a prodigy and a wonder, remains a chrysalis in China, and is preserved in a deathlike state.
• Dawn, which is light in a chrysalis state, leaves even those forms which are in movement in the uncertainty of night.
• No wonder that science rose, under such an impulse, as a butterfly from its chrysalis.
• These should be strung in sets upon a thread, care being taken not to pierce the chrysalis, and the strings hung in a cool, darkened room.
• A new soul, a soul with rainbow wings, had burst its chrysalis.
• Rothschild had got it! I had had the orchids nearly a year and a half, so it must have been, in the chrysalis all that time and longer, which Mr.
• He tried it both on the chrysalis and on an insect too.

Similar words containing CHRYSALI without suffix s

chrysalid18 chrysalids19 chrysalidal20 chrysalides20 chrysalises19

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