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"Cocoon stage"2 answers
pupa4 letterschrysalis9 letters
Filled answer is this word (CHRYSALIS).
Definitions
pupa of a moth or butterfly enclosed in a cocoon
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“Caterpillars, chrysalisses soon reveal / The future gandy butterfly.”
“Fanny was afraid. She was like an insect new-hatched from its chrysalis, naked and unprotected in a dawn she could not face.”
“A project on butterflies! And caterpillars and chrysalisses and things, and lots of nice drawings, coloured with felt pens.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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