Definitions from Wiktionary (Chrysalis)

▸ noun:  The pupa of a butterfly or moth, particularly bare and hanging or girdled, as opposed to enclosed in a cocoon, in which metamorphosis takes place.
▸ noun:  The cocoon itself.
▸ noun:  (figurative) A limiting environment or situation.
▸ verb:  To form a chrysalis.
▸ verb:  To metamorphize; to transform.
▸ noun:  (astronomy) A former moon in Saturn, Solar System. A hypothetical former moon of Saturn, whose gravitational influence is proposed as the source of Saturn's inclination and near-resonance with Uranus, and whose destruction by gravitational disruption is proposed as the source of Saturn's rings.
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