Crossword-Solution: CHRYSALIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Chrysalis | n. | The pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies, from which the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a). |
We have 14 clues for the answer “CHRYSALIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BUTTERFLY pupa | 1 answer |
| INSECT larva, inactive state of | 1 answer |
| LARVA, inactive state of | 1 answer |
| LARVA, sheath enclosing | 1 answer |
| Soon-to-be butterfly | 1 answer |
| Transformative insect stage before the butterfly emerges | 1 answer |
| Cocoon resident | 2 answers |
| pupa | 3 answers |
| cocoon | 15 answers |
| Larva | 29 answers |
| sheath | 43 answers |
| FIRST cause | 52 answers |
| ABIDING place | 64 answers |
| Wrap | 65 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CHRYSALIS (5)
His thoughts floated then serenely in the empyrean, and he felt towards her the horror that perhaps the painted butterfly, hovering about the flowers, feels to the filthy chrysalis from which it has triumphantly emerged.
The sleeping brown-skinned babies in their chrysalis-like hoods were gently lowered from the pony’s back and attached securely to Nakpa’s padded wooden saddle.
Kindergarten teachers are familiar with such narratives: the little stories of chrysalis-breaking, flower-growth, and the like.
Some of them were nice little souls, who in the future would emerge from their chrysalis state enchanting women, but they used colloquialisms freely, and had an ingenuous habit of referring to the prices of things.
Quicker than I can write it lapped a corner over and rolled me in its folds like a chrysalis in a cocoon.
Quotes with CHRYSALIS (3)
We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.
I think a lot of science can seem like magic before it's explained properly. Sometimes we don't have the observations, the data, or the right words yet to explain it. Surely there was a time long ago when people watched a butterfly emerge from a chrysalis and thought of it as magic.
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2002–2015).