Word familynounchrysalischrysanthemumchrysarobinchrysoberylchrysocollachrysocracychrysolitechrysophanchrysophilitechrysoprasechrysotileadjectivechryselephantine
chrysalis• Butterflies: During winter, caterpillars form a chrysalis.• His armour has become a bandage as stiff as the casing of a chrysalis.• Wexford was reminded of a butterfly, fresh and lusty, that has escaped from a driedchrysalis.• Chrysalid came from chrysalis, a protective covering, a sheltered state or stage of being or growth.• The butterfly of the gospel has broken out of its chrysalis at Jerusalem and has flown to the centre of the civilised world.• Over the years, however, the chrysalis has developed a few harmlesstransparencies.• Within the chrysalis the insectundergoescompletemetamorphosis.• The chrysalis stays fixed to the resting place.
Originchrysalis
(1600-1700)Latinchrysallis“gold-colored chrysalis of some butterflies”, from Greek, from chrysos“gold”