chrysalis

IPA: krˈɪsʌɫɪs

The pupa of a butterfly or moth, enclosed inside a cocoon, in which metamorphosis takes place.
The cocoon itself.
(figurative) A limiting environment or situation.
(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.

Examples of "chrysalis" in Sentences

We also never hear the word chrysalis without thinking of Miss Waterman.
The chrysalis is what the silkworm becomes when it finishes spinning its cocoon.
Moth caterpillars spin a cocoon while butterfly larvae form a leathery shell called a chrysalis.
"The metaphor for 'chrysalis' as a bass fiddle with no strings and a small pistol" is so profoundly smart, and on the mark!
In the nymphalid butterflies, the pupa is often called a 'chrysalis' on account of the golden hue displayed by the cuticle, and the term
As soon as it is grown big enough and fat enough, the grub hangs itself up as a "chrysalis" which is a Greek word that may be freely rendered into "golden jewel."
Equipped with a fiscally responsible and well-paid wife I did actually give up a perfectly good day job to ‘become a writer’ as if some kind of chrysalis was involved.
A moth just issuing from his chrysalis is the only being which seems to have felt his soporific influence; whereas the other god I have mentioned may vaunt the glory of subduing the most formidable of animals.
For insects produce a scolex first; the scolex after developing becomes egg-like (for the so-called chrysalis or pupa is equivalent to an egg); then from this it is that a perfect animal comes into being, reaching the end of its development in the second change.