Definition of Cocooning

1. Noun. Retreating to the seclusion of your home (as for privacy or escape).

Generic synonyms: Seclusion

Definition of Cocooning

1. Verb. (present participle of cocoon) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cocooning

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocooning

coconut milk
coconut oil
coconut palm
coconut palms
coconut sound
coconut tree
coconut water
coconuts
coconutty
coconversion
cocoon
cocooned
cocooneries
cocoonery
cocooning
cocoonings
cocoonish
cocoonlike
cocoons
cocopalm
cocopalms
cocopan
cocopans
cocopeat
cocoplum
cocoplums
cocos
cocoswood

Literary usage of Cocooning

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1907)
"The influence that occasions the cocooning can therefore not be one of amount of ... I do not think that cocooning is stimulated by any light condition, ..."

2. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1904)
"I have been watching to see if the insect would gradually come to adopt a less dangerous cocooning habit, but up to the present time have not myself ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"The ideas of the observer as to the cocooning habits of Lycosa were very much ... The period consumed in the whole act of cocooning was less than four ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"THE Cocooning OF LOXOSCELES RUFESCENS ... I give these brief notes here because the cocooning of no ..."

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