Definition of "cocoons" [cocoons]

• Plural form of cocoon. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cocoon. (verb)

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• ""With respect to the cocoons spun by the different larvæ, both workers and drones spin _complete cocoons_, or inclose themselves on every side; royal larvæ construct only _imperfect cocoons_, open behind, and enveloping only the head, thorax, and first ring of the abdomen; and"
• "The real problem with everybody insulating themselves into these ideological cocoons is that, in the end, if everybody is an expert then nobody is an expert."
• "The “loner artist,” on the one hand a capitalist plot to ensure we all stay in our cocoons, is simultaneously a capitalist dupe, resisting the deeper satisfactions of communal life."