Definition of Cacoon

1. n. One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (Entada scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc.

Definition of Cacoon

1. Noun. One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (''Entada scandens''), used for making purses, scent bottles, etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cacoon

1. a large seed [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cacoon

cacography
cacolet
cacolets
cacology
cacomistle
cacomistles
cacomixl
cacomixle
cacomixles
cacomixls
caconym
caconymies
caconyms
caconymy
cacoon (current term)
cacoons
cacophemism
cacophemisms
cacophobia
cacophonic
cacophonies
cacophonophilia
cacophonous
cacophonously
cacophony
cacoplastic
cacosmia
cacosyntheton
cacotechnies

Literary usage of Cacoon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture by Jamaica Department of Agriculture, Jamaica, Dept. of Agriculture, William Fawcett (1904)
"ANTIDOTE cacoon.* NOTE BY DR. REID HUNT, OF JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY. I find that the seeds contain a volatile oil which gives them properties similar to ..."

2. The British Critic (1824)
"... when they commence enveloping themselves in a cacoon or pod. ... forces its way through one end of the cacoon, and issues forth a heavy, ill-looking ..."

3. Catalogue of the British Colonies by Great Britain (1878)
"2 obtained from the cake left after pressing No. 1 by drying and re-pressing; total yield 60 per cent. Sand Box (Hura crepitans) yield 21'5. Antidote cacoon ..."

4. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1816)
"... of the mode adopted there for rearing the worm from its earliest period till the formation of the cacoon, and also the mode of winding off the «ilk. ..."

5. Publications of the Folk-Lore Foundation by Vassar College Folk-lore Foundation (1922)
"Man can't married widout he hab a cacoon a river-side. "A man can't marry unless he has (at least) the means to live." The cashew nut hangs by a slender ..."

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