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# chrysalis

«chrysalis» in Mova's school dictionary: **The hard case a caterpillar makes around itself while it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a chrysalis, chrysalises or chrysalides)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The hard case a caterpillar makes around itself while it changes into a butterfly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chrysalis/#m1)

2) The stage in a butterfly's life cycle when it is inside this case (the pupa stage). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chrysalis/#m2)

3) A time of quiet change before something new appears (figurative). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chrysalis/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science it is a key stage of the butterfly life cycle: egg → caterpillar (larva) → chrysalis (pupa) → adult butterfly. This big change is called complete metamorphosis. Classes often watch caterpillars turn into chrysalises and then butterflies. Phrases: inside the chrysalis, come out of the chrysalis, emerge from the chrysalis.

### examples

- The caterpillar hung upside down and made a chrysalis. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chrysalis/#x1)
- Inside the chrysalis, the caterpillar turns into a butterfly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chrysalis/#x2)
- After two weeks the butterfly came out of its chrysalis. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chrysalis/#x3)
- A butterfly's life cycle is egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chrysalis/#x4)
- Don't touch the chrysalis — it is very delicate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chrysalis/#x5)
- The chrysalis looked like a little green jewel on the leaf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chrysalis/#x6)

### note

Pronounced KRISS-a-liss. Plural: chrysalises (common). Butterflies make a chrysalis; moths usually make a cocoon (spun from silk) — a common confusion. «Pupa» is the scientific word for this stage for both.

### In the corpora

- [A caterpillar turns into a butterfly inside a chrysalis, where its body breaks down and is rebuilt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/5/)
- [A moth's caterpillar often makes a silk cocoon before it changes, but a butterfly's caterpillar makes a bare chrysalis.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/17/)
- [A caterpillar eats and eats, growing many times bigger, then inside the chrysalis its body is rebuilt into a butterfly with wings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/4/)
- [A butterfly's life cycle is egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and adult butterfly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chrysalis» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chrysalis/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.