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Definition of Cocooning
1. Noun. Retreating to the seclusion of your home (as for privacy or escape).
Definition of Cocooning
1. Verb. (present participle of cocoon) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cocooning
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocooning
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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