chrysalis

chrysalis englannista suomeksi

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chrysalis englanniksi

1. The pupa of a butterfly or moth, enclosed inside a cocoon, in which metamorphosis takes place.

2. (quote-book)|location=Boston, Mass.|publisher=Adonis Howard,(nb...)|year=1828|page=174|passage=Amongst the particular signs testifying the same thing, are also those exhibited by worms which feed on herbs, which, when they are to undergo a metamorphosis, encompass themselves as with a womb, that they may be born again, being therein changed into nymphs and chrysalisses, and presently into beautiful butterflies, when they fly into the air as into their heaven, where the female sports with her male companion, as one conjugal partner with another, and they nourish themselves from odoriferous flowers, and lay their eggs, thus providing that their species may live after them: (..)

3. (quote-book)|year=1857|page=155|passage=The herbaceous or herbiferous produce had such gummy gelatinous properties, that tiniest tiddles incorporated themselves into huge chrysalisses, from whence monster butterflies egged it, all the world over, like snowberries, during a moist September, as soon as the blossom is by!

4. (quote-book)

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6. The cocoon itself.

7. A limiting environment or situation.

8. (RQ:Churchill Celebrity)

9. (quote-web)

10. To form a chrysalis.

11. (quote-book) John Millan,(nb...)|year=1767|pages=24–25|passage=June 11. it chryſaliſed into a ſmall round ſilk-bag, mothed the 27th. (..) The ground of the caterpillar is yellow, thick ſet with warts, and black-haired ſtars; chryſaliſed into a ſilk-bag Jan. 17. hatched the 28th into a yellow moth, ſhaded with red, as the painting repreſents it.

12. (quote-journal)

13. To metamorphize; to transform.

14. (quote-book)|year=1879|page=129|passage=He is in uniform, and for three years flutters on the parade, in the beer-gardens, in the gallery at the theatre, and then he chrysalises into the old paternal bauer suit and the patriarchal ideas.