chrysalis

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 krĭʹsəlĭs

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A butterfly pupa or the pupal stage of the butterfly lifestyle; (originally) any pupal stage of any insect wherein the pupa is largely inactive and takes no food.
    — 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: […]
  2. The bare hanging cocoon of butterfly pupae; (originally) any cocoon.
  3. Any limiting environment or situation escaped during one's growth or development in the manner of a butterfly. figuratively
    — However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
动词 v.
  1. To form a chrysalis or cocoon.
    — 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.
  2. To metamorphize, to undergo metamorphosis, to transform.
    — 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.

词形变化

chrysalises plural chrysalides plural chrysalisses plural,rare chrysallis alternative,rare chrysalid alternative,archaic chrysaloid alternative,archaic chrysalises present,singular,third-person chrysalising participle,present chrysalised participle,past chrysalised past chrysallis alternative,rare chrysalid alternative,archaic chrysaloid alternative,archaic

词汇关系

衍生词
chrysalid chrysaline Chrysalis chrysalised chrysalism chrysaloid teleiochrysalis

词源

词源 1
From Latin chrysalis, variant of chrȳsallis, from Ancient Greek χρυσαλλίς (khrusallís), usually derived from χρυσός (khrusós, “gold, golden”) + -αλλ- + -ις (-is, “-id: forming feminine nouns”) but compare θρυαλλίς (thruallís) and ἀρυβαλλίς (aruballís), both believed to come from a Pre-Greek substrate on the basis of their unusual endings.
词源 2
From Latin chrysalis, variant of chrȳsallis, from Ancient Greek χρυσαλλίς (khrusallís), usually derived from χρυσός (khrusós, “gold, golden”) + -αλλ- + -ις (-is, “-id: forming feminine nouns”) but compare θρυαλλίς (thruallís) and ἀρυβαλλίς (aruballís), both believed to come from a Pre-Greek substrate on the basis of their unusual endings.
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