Cocoon is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COCOON in dictionary:

VERB:
• to wrap tightly
• envelop in a protective or comforting way
• retreat from the stressful conditions of public life into the cosy private world of the family
• spray with a protective coating.
• retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment
• wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection
• wrap up tightly for protection
NOUN:
• a silky case spun by the larvae of many insects for protection as pupae
• something that envelops someone in a protective or comforting way
• a covering that prevents the corrosion of metal equipment.
• silky protective covering of a silkworm
• An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared.
• The case constructed by any insect to contain its larva or pupa.
• The case of silk made by spiders to protect their eggs.
• The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms.
• silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to wrap or envelop tightly

Words related to COCOON

cocooned13 cocooning14 cocoons11

Words that contain COCOON

cocoons11 cocooned13 cocooner12 cocooners13 cocoonery16 cocooning14 cocoonings15 cocooneries15

How to use COCOON in a sentence

• It was as if she had witnessed the exercise of some secret gift, had seen a cocoon open or an egg hatch.
• There was an unusually large Luna cocoon, and the moth was bursting the upper end in its struggles to reach light and air.
• It was covered with as many layers as a worm in a cocoon.
• Through the interstices there gleamed a revelation of the back itself, fat, white, again like a worm in a cocoon.
• At first the worm proceeds by stretching filaments backward and forward from one twig to another in such manner as to include a space large enough for the future cocoon.
• After having thus provided a support and outlined the cocoon, the worm begins the serious work of constrution.
• The appearance of the cocoon is probably well known to most of our readers.
• In brushing after the ordinary manner, the point of the brush is almost sure to come into contact with and to break some of the filament forming the body of the cocoon.
• We have now to explain the operation of the machine by which the thread is formed from the prepared cocoon.
• The moth winters in the cocoon, emerges early in May, if the weather be warm, pairs readily, and lays from 150 to 200 eggs.
• They moved in a cocoon of smoke, thicker and thicker, until Ross could not even see the Foanna who accompanied him, was only assured of her presence by the hand which grasped his.
• God never intended her to wind herself up into a cocoon.
• If this cocoon were left to itself, the worm would change to a moth, and the moth would eat its way out of this little house.
• As soon, therefore, as the cocoon is made, it is put into hot water to kill the worm.
• The single thread, as wound off from the cocoon, is designated the raw silk.
• Almost the first thorn bush she examined yielded a Polyphemus cocoon.
• Then Ammon took back the cocoon to smooth the edges.
• Presently they came down the creek, the man carrying the cocoon as if it were a jewel, while Elnora made her way along the bank, taking a lesson in casting.
• He came down the creek fishing and cut this cocoon from under the bridge for me.
• The girl carried the cocoon and the box of moths she had taken, searching every step for more.
• And yet it formed a casing in which the woman was wrapped as the moth in its cocoon.

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