Usually means: Pupal stage in butterfly development.
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  1. chrysalis: Merriam-Webster
  2. chrysalis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chrysalis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chrysalis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chrysalis: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chrysalis, chrysalis: Wordnik
  7. chrysalis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. chrysalis: Wiktionary
  9. chrysalis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chrysalis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chrysalis: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. chrysalis: Dictionary.com
  13. chrysalis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. chrysalis: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Chrysalis (Babylon 5), Chrysalis (DS9 episode), Chrysalis (EP), Chrysalis (album), Chrysalis (boarding school), Chrysalis (disambiguation), Chrysalis (magazine), Chrysalis (sculpture), Chrysalis (short story), Chrysalis, The Chrysalis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Chrysalis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. chrysalis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. chrysalis: Rhymezone
  19. Chrysalis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. chrysalis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. chrysalis: FreeDictionary.org
  22. chrysalis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. chrysalis: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Chrysalis [ch = k]: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. chrysalis: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chrysalis: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. chrysalis, chrysalis: A Word A Day

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Chrysalis: HYPP Zoology
  3. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chrysalis: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See chrysalides as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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