The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chrysalid \Chrys"a*lid\, a. Pertaining to a chrysalis; resembling a chrysalis.
Chrysalid \Chrys"a*lid\, n.; pl. Chrysalids. See Chrysalis.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to a chrysalis," c.1810, see chrysalis. As a noun variant of chrysalis, 1620s, perhaps from Middle French chrysalide.
Wiktionary
a. of or relating to a chrysalis
Usage examples of "chrysalid".
Fortunately, treated Haluk individuals who had reverted to the testudomorph state did emerge from their chrysalids as healthy allomorphic graciles.
He wrote The Day of the Triffids and The Krak en Wakes (both of which have been translated into several languages), The Chrysalids, The Midwich Cuckoos (filmed as The Village of the Damned), The Seeds of Time, The Outward Urge (with Lucas Parkes), Trouble with Lichen, Consider Her Ways and Others and Chocky (1968), all of which have been published as Penguins.
Other novels were Out of the Deeps (British title, The Kraken Wakes, 1953), Re-Birth (British title, The Chrysalids, 1955), Chocky (1968), The Outward Urge (1959), Planet Plane (1936), The Secret People (1956), The Trouble with Lichen (1960).
It was an expansion of a short story following a theme similar to The Chrysalids and The Midwich Cuckoos.