Anagrams of: COCOONING

• silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs

• retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment

• wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection

• the sound made by a pigeon

• speak softly or lovingly

• cry softly, as of pigeons

• relating to or resembling a cone

• (geometry) a curve generated by the intersection of a plane and a circular cone

• any cone-shaped artifact

• a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point

• cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts

• a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color

• make cone-shaped

• tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics

• black tea grown in China

• a republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960

• a major African river (one of the world's longest); flows through Congo into the South Atlantic

• a republic in west-central Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960

• expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase

• the keystone of an arch

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• Any of several perennial rhizomatous grasses of genus Imperata, especially Imperata cylindrica.