cocooned

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/kəˈkuːnd/

adjective

Enclosed in a cocoon.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. Enclosed in a cocoon.

    As previously stated, the true hibernating form of the midge is the "cocooned larva."

    1910, United States. Bureau of Entomology, Bulletin
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    A low humidity of 35%, on the whole was highly injurious to the development and viability of cocooned larvae.

    1951, Ghulam-Ullah Chaudhry, The Development and Fecundity of the Oriental Fruit Moth, page 76

    values derived as mean of measurements taken on 47 cocooned female larvae reared on new foliage and 26 cocooned female larvae reared on mature foliage.

    1973, John N. All, Mechanism of Preferential Feeding by Jeodiprion Swainei Middleton and Neodiprion Rugifrons Middleton on Pinus Banksiana Lambert, page 65
  2. Isolated, especially in an environment that limits interaction with whatever is outside it.

    So we all expected a fairly open and informative visit. But it was very cocooned.

    2016, Tamler Sommers, A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain
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    A young black hole formed in the center of galaxy can develop into the cocooned black hole or, as extreme possibility, into a magnetoid with a black hole inside.

    1981, Victor J. Stenger, Dumand-80, page 194

    That was a very big eye-opener for me, after being very cocooned, living most of my life in the city where I was born and raised.

    2013, R. Heppner, The Lost Leaders: How Corporate America Loses Women Leaders

    And yet, as the coverage became more relentless, she chose to become more cocooned.

    2017, Steve Richards, The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way

    It was a very cocooned environment, in a way, and I could write and get a lot of feedback.

    2018, Michele Meek, Independent Female Filmmakers
  3. Stored in an inactive state; mothballed.

    The cocooned machinery in its case being hoisted aboard Grace Line's Santa Ana.

    1947, “Cocooned Hosiery Machines”, in The Grace Log, volumes 22-25, page 17
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    Towed from the paint spray hangar, the plane joins other cocooned aircraft at McClellan's storage area preparatory to a convoy along State highways from McClellan to Government loading docks on the Sacramento River, 15 miles away.

    1957, North America Skyline - Volumes 15-18, page 28

    The three airframes were to remain cocooned and awaiting their uncertain future until the mid 1960s, when all three of them were finally broken up.

    2018, Charles Woodley, Flying Boats: Air Travel in the Golden Age, page 1943
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of cocoon

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Chicago

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