chrysalis
A butterfly pupa or the pupal stage of the butterfly lifestyleA butterfly pupa or the pupal stage of the butterfly lifestyle; (originally) any pupal stage of any insect wherein the pupa is largely inactive and takes no food.
» Humanity has yet to form its chrysalis.
Meaning
3 sensesA butterfly pupa or the pupal stage of the butterfly lifestyle; (originally) any pupal stage of any insect wherein the pupa is largely inactive and takes no food.
Puppe
ку́колкаkúkolka, хризали́даxrizalída
ля́лечкаljálečka
The bare hanging cocoon of butterfly pupae; (originally) any cocoon.
pupa of a moth or butterfly enclosed in a cocoon
(figuratively)Any limiting environment or situation escaped during one's growth or development in the manner of a butterfly.
Examples
4 sentencesHumanity has yet to form its chrysalis.
What's the difference between a cocoon and a chrysalis?
Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
We saw several swallowtails and caterpillars. And there's this really fat one that should be turning into a chrysalis soon.
Translations
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Origin
From Latin chrysalis, variant of chrȳsallis, from Ancient Greek χρυσαλλίς (khrusallís), usFrom Latin chrysalis, variant of chrȳsallis, from Ancient Greek χρυσαλλίς (khrusallís), usually derived from χρυσός (khrusós, “gold, golden”) + -αλλ- + -ις (-is, “-id: forming feminine nouns”) but compare θρυαλλίς (thruallís) and ἀρυβαλλίς (aruballís), both believed to come from a Pre-Greek substrate on the basis of their unusual endings.
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