Message-ID: <4464390.1075861126270.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 07:31:45 -0800 (PST) From: m..scott@enron.com To: moshuffle@hotmail.com Subject: word of the day Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Scott, Susan M. X-To: 'moshuffle@hotmail.com' X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Susan_Scott_Mar2002\Scott, Susan M.\Sent Items X-Origin: Scott-S X-FileName: sscott5 (Non-Privileged).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.