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Cocooned

adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Enclosed in a cocoon.

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

  2. 2
    Isolated, especially in an environment that limits interaction with whatever is outside it.

    "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."

  3. 3
    Stored in an inactive state; mothballed.

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

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of cocoon form-of, participle, past

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