What is "chrysalides"

Usage examples of "chrysalides".

I am now able to move my fingers inside these chrysalides, but I do not know whether that is good or bad.

The chrysalides put out thousands of fibers that have seemingly completed their connection to my hands, and now I fear they are a part of me, but as to what is happening I do not know.

The shiny black chrysalides on her hands and forearms seemed to have grown thicker, rougher, scaly.

Riane looked at Giyan, tall, slim, beautiful, golden, radiant, save for the blackened crusts of the sorcerous chrysalides that covered her hands and forearms.

Her hands and forearms, dead black from the chrysalides covering them, were the only parts of her that did not shine like beacons.

The chrysalides had formed after she had violated the sacred circle of the Nanthera, in a futile attempt to keep Annon alive.

An eerie glow was emanating from the chrysalides that covered Giyan's hands and forearms.

At last, the chrysalides had let go of Giyan, the sheaths had come off, and her hands and forearms stood revealed, thick with sinuous red veins and ropey yellow arteries, standing out in convolute profusion.

As best she could, she cast about for a counterspell to the sorcerous transformation the chrysalides had worked on Giyan, but she knew so few spells, and none of them seemed right.

The Caller Ring then sends a pulsed-gravity-wave signal to the Worldeater chrysalides sleeping in the star system.

The awakening chrysalides emerge from their long sleep as adult Worldeaters.

Over the years, chunks of packaging, latch pins, small tools, items of clothing, and other shipboard debris had all stuck where they’d drifted to rest, giving the impression of inorganic chrysalides frozen in the act of metamorphosis.