Usually means: Protective casing for transforming larvae.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word cocoon:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. cocoon: Merriam-Webster
  2. cocoon, cocoon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cocoon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cocoon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cocoon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cocoon, cocoon: Wordnik
  7. cocoon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cocoon: Wiktionary
  9. cocoon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cocoon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cocoon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cocoon: Dictionary.com
  13. cocoon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cocoon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cocoon (Catfish and the Bottlemen song), Cocoon (Meg & Dia Album), Cocoon (Meg & Dia album), Cocoon (Milky Chance song), Cocoon (band), Cocoon (club), Cocoon (disambiguation), Cocoon (film), Cocoon (silk), Cocoon, The Cocoon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cocoon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cocoon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cocoon: Rhymezone
  19. cocoon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cocoon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cocoon: FreeDictionary.org
  22. cocoon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. cocoon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. cocoon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cocoon (single), cocoon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cocoon: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. COCOON: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cocoon: HYPP Zoology
  2. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cocoon (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. Cocoon: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cocooning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The silky case spun by the larvae of some insects in which they metamorphose, protecting the pupa within.
noun:  Any similar protective case, whether real or metaphorical.
verb:  (transitive) To envelop in a protective case.
verb:  (intransitive) To withdraw into such a case.

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