"chrysalid" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2003 June 20, Kerry Reid, “Choice Cuts”, in Chicago Reader",
          "text": "Dark: In Larva, Pupa, and Flight details the transformation from a chrysalid state of frustration--rendered here by a dark, mechanistic environment complete with droning soundscape--to a fleeting interlude of freedom.",
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          "ref": "1924, Alexander Teixeira De Mattos, The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles",
          "text": "The larva which is fed on honey first adopts a false chrysalid appearance and afterwards goes back to its earlier form, though the necessity for these transformations escapes us entirely.",
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          "ref": "1922, Hubert D. Henderson, Supply and Demand",
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          "ref": "1860, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860",
          "text": "But, for all that, there had been intervals, ere his thirteen years' exile ended, in which, so far from regret, he experienced a certain joy at remembrance of this rough and rugged point of time where he had escaped from the chrysalid state to one of action and freedom and real life.",
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        "of or relating to a chrysalis."
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          "text": "Dark: In Larva, Pupa, and Flight details the transformation from a chrysalid state of frustration--rendered here by a dark, mechanistic environment complete with droning soundscape--to a fleeting interlude of freedom.",
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