chrysalides (0 synonym found)

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Definition of chrysalides:

(n) : 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.
(n) : The cocoon itself.
(v) : To metamorphize; to transform.
(v) : To form a chrysalis.
(n) : (figurative) A limiting environment or situation.
(n) : (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.

Definition of chrysalides:

(n) : 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.
(n) : The cocoon itself.
(v) : To metamorphize; to transform.
(v) : To form a chrysalis.
(n) : (figurative) A limiting environment or situation.
(n) : (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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