1. cocoon

noun. ['kəˈkuːn'] silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs.

Rhymes with Cocoon

• contrabassoon
• wotherspoon
• viromune
• inopportune
• picayune
• ducommun
• afternoon
• terhune
• rangoon
• pontoon
• platoon
• opportune
• muldoon
• monsoon
• mckune
• mccune
• mccuen
• mcclune
• majnoon
• lampoon
• impugn
• huntoon
• harpoon
• hamdoon
• festoon
• disharoon
• dekroon
• commune
• cartoon
• cardoon

How do you pronounce cocoon?

Pronounce cocoon as kəˈkun.

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Sentences with cocoon

1. Noun, singular or mass
Many of these insects enter this transformational stage inside what is known as a cocoon.

2. Verb, base form
The casemaking clothes moth will sometimes use cotton fibers to cocoon themselves when nothing else is available.

3. Verb, non-3rd person singular present
A Promethea moth cocoon looks like a curled leaf that doesn't fall from the tree in autumn.

Quotes about cocoon

1. We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly.
- Max Lucado, Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions

2. And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him and out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I couldn't distinguish among the pains.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

2. cocoon

verb. ['kəˈkuːn'] wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection.

3. cocoon

verb. ['kəˈkuːn'] retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment.