cocooneryn.
/kəˈkuːnəri/ U.S.
A building or room for rearing silkworms and obtaining cocoons.
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cocoonery1839
1839 Southern Literary Messenger 5 753/1 She..even went to the expense of having a neat little cocoonery erected in the centre of the lot.
1848 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1847 178 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (30th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 54) VI Moisture in the cocooneries increases the chance of infection.
1868 Daily News 3 Aug. In Nevada..a cocoonery 50 feet square and 18 feet high.
1885 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 7 Sept. 2/4 A cocoonery that will protect a million worms.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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