cocooned

English

Adjective

cocooned

1. Enclosed in a cocoon.
   • 1910, United States. Bureau of Entomology, Bulletin:

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

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

     A low humidity of 35%, on the whole was highly injurious to the development and viability of cocooned larvae.

   • 1973, John N. All, Mechanism of Preferential Feeding by Jeodiprion Swainei Middleton and Neodiprion Rugifrons Middleton on Pinus Banksiana Lambert, page 65:

     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.

2. Isolated, especially in an environment that limits interaction with whatever is outside it.
   • 1981, Victor J. Stenger, Dumand-80, page 194:

     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.

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

     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.

   • 2016, Tamler Sommers, A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain:

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

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

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

   • 2018, Michele Meek, Independent Female Filmmakers:

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

3. Stored in an inactive state; mothballed.
   • 1947, “Cocooned Hosiery Machines”, in The Grace Log, volumes 22-25, page 17:

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

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

     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.

   • 2018, Charles Woodley, Flying Boats: Air Travel in the Golden Age, page 1943:

     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.

Derived terms

• uncocooned

 

Verb

cocooned

1. simple past and past participle of cocoon

Anagrams

• decocoon