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"Families cocoon around the T.V. set most evenings" "She loves to stay at home and cocoon"verbretreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environmenttype of:
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nounsilky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggstype of:
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verbwrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection
Definition that contains cocoon
- spider predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey
- silk animal fibers produced by silkworms and other larvae that spin cocoons and by most spiders
- cocoon retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment
- cocoon wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection
- pupal of the insects in the chrysalis (cocoon) or post larval stage
- chrysalis pupa of a moth or butterfly enclosed in a cocoon
- silkworm larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon
- silkworm the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk
- saturniid moth large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons
- eggar moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults; larvae feed on tree foliage and spin egg-shaped cocoons