Noun: cocoon
| Singular | cocoon |
| Plural | cocoons |
Sample Sentences
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The bad guys generally don’t like to get on trains, because they’re trapped on a moving cocoon that the CTA controls. [1997 June 24, Robert Dart, quotee, “CTA To Leave Train Conductors At The Station”, in Chicago Tribune:]
Nouns inflected like cocoon
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French cocon, a diminutive of coque (“shell”).
Verbs referencing "cocoon"
Irish Nouns
cocún.