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say it: kuh-KOON
cocoon is a verb and noun meaning "retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment". It carries 3 recorded senses.
silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cocoon come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.