a. [irreg. f. CHRYSAL-IS + -OID: see CHRYSALINE.] Chrysalis-like.
1816. Colebrooke, in Asiat. Researches, XII. 539. Cotyledons two, unequal … chrysaloid-contortuplicate.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 233. A 1-seeded drupe, with crumpled chrysaloid cotyledons.
1843. Blackw. Mag., LIII. 80. They … emerge from the chrysaloid state of childhood.
