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cowry
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Word definitions for cowry in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cowrie \Cow"rie\ Cowry \Cow"ry\(kou"r[y^]), n.; pl. Cowries (-r[i^]z). [Hind. kaur[imac].] (Zo["o]l.) A marine shell of the genus Cypr[ae]a . Note: There are numerous species, many of them ornamental. Formerly Cypr[ae]a moneta and several other species ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cowry or cowrie , plural cowries , is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails , marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cypraeidae , the cowries. The word cowry is also often used to refer only to the shells of these snails, which overall ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells [syn: cowrie ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of the marine molluscs of the genus ''Cypraea''. 2 The money cowry, (taxlink Cypraea moneta species noshow=1).
Usage examples of cowry.
Females of the Wimbu tribe of the Andaman Islands pierce their labia and dangle strings of cowry shells from them.
The difficulty of commensuration can exist only in minds obsessed by the atavistic necessity of counting cowries or wives on the fingers.
Perhaps, therefore, instead of eighty, we should read eight hundred cowries to the saggio, which would still leave a profit of cent.
I want the complete range of your local cowries and I want this fish we're after.
I want the complete range of your local cowries and I want this fish were after.
I want the complete range of your local cowries and I want this fish we’re after.
On their arrival the pagazis are paid by the dealers according to contract, which is generally either by about twenty yards of the cotton stuff known as merikani, or by a little powder, by a handful or two of cowries, by some beads, or if all these be scarce, they are paid by being allotted some of the slaves who are otherwise unsalable.
The ladies not unfrequently wore girdles of beads attached to green skirts embroidered with silk and ornamented with bits of glass or cowries, or sometimes the skirts were made of the grass cloth called lambda, which, in blue, yellow, or black, is so much valued by the people of Zanzibar.
Yoke picked out a big whelk, two brown cowries, and two tooth cowries.
Their loot up to this time had not been very impressive, consisting mainly of a few cowries and a weirdly colored fragment of coral for which Malmstrom had gone overboard in twelve feet of water.