cocoon

Object

• environment: This was, and still is, a mathematics research institute in an isolated and cocooned environment.
• world: Fenner and Shell are causing trouble, by telling Barbara of Nikkiâs sexuality, disturbing her cocooned middle-class world.

Converse of object

• spin: Seasonal adaptation include spinning a cocoon, lying dormant or laying eggs for the winter period.
• form: Mulberry leaves are the staple diet of the silk moth larvae which produces raw silk thread when forming a cocoon.
• make: They can reproduce when 3 - 6 weeks old, making a cocoon in the soil from which live worms emerge.
• leave: The female is wingless and never leaves the cocoon where it lays all its eggs and dies.
• create: She creates metaphors from these histories conveyed through the metamorphic cocoons created by the ever-present insect inhabitants.

Adjective modifier

• silken: There is a complex metamorphosis, with three larval stages, followed by a pupal stage enclosed in silken cocoon.
• protective: Not the latest dance fad, but the process by which they spin a protective cocoon around themselves and develop into adults.
• little: In the dark, snug in my own little cocoon, I can get lost for hours telling stories in my head.
• own: In the dark, snug in my own little cocoon, I can get lost for hours telling stories in my head.
• cozy: A crib makes a cozy cocoon and is conveniently sized to sit beside your bed for easy night time feeds.
• safe: It's very cozy on board when the fire's going, a sort of safe cocoon!

Modifies a noun

coffin: The cloth or cocoon coffin are not cremated, as the body will be cremated inside the original cardboard coffin.

Modifying Another Word

• forward: Ultra cocooning forward facing pushchair plus ' AutoBaby ' car seat.
• gently: It gently cocoons a tiny 2.5kg ( 5lbs ) newborn yet is strong enough to carry chunky toddlers!

Noun used with modifier

silk: The caterpillar will then spin itself a silk cocoon high up on the grass stem.

Present participle complement

face: Ultra cocooning forward facing pushchair plus ' AutoBaby ' car seat.

Preposition: of

silk: As he struggled to free his weapon his target spun a cocoon of silk about him leaving him barely able to breath.

Preposition: from

world: The heat from outside surges through in a wave, equalizing the heat differential that had kept us climatically cocooned from the outside world.