verb
- to emerge or break out from a pupal case or egg; to hatch (used especially of insects)
Usage: entomology; technical
Examples
- The butterfly will eclose from its chrysalis in about two weeks.
- Mosquito larvae eclose into adults after passing through several developmental stages.
- Scientists observed when the insects would eclose under controlled laboratory conditions.
- The newly eclosed moths were fragile and needed time to dry their wings.
- Temperature affects how quickly the pupae will eclose.