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Date:Thu, 20 Dec 2001 07:31:45 -0800 (PST)

thought you'd find this interesting.....

chrysalis (KRIS-uh-lis) noun, plural chrysalises or chrysalides (kri-SAL-i-deez)

A pupa of a moth or butterfly, enclosed in a cocoon.

[From Latin chrysallis, from Greek.]

"The climax of metamorphosis into an adult can be viewed almost daily.
Butterflies usually emerge from their chrysalises sometime between 9:30
a.m. and 11:30 a.m."
William Allen, Where Beauty Flutters By, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Jul 23, 1995.