cowrie

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

cowrie
    n 1: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus
         Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked
         shells [syn: {cowrie}, {cowry}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Kauri \Ka"u*ri\, n. [Native name.] (Bot.)
   A tall coniferous tree of New Zealand {Agathis australis}, or
   {Dammara australis}), having white straight-grained wood
   furnishing valuable timber and also yielding one kind of
   {dammar resin}. [Written also {kaudi}, {kaury}, {cowdie}, and
   {cowrie}.]
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Cowrie \Cow"rie\ (-r[y^]), n. (Bot.)
   Same as {Kauri}.
   [1913 Webster] Cowrie

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Cowrie \Cow"rie\ Cowry \Cow"ry\(kou"r[y^]), n.; pl. {Cowries}
   (-r[i^]z). [Hind. kaur[imac].] (Zool.)
   A marine shell of the genus {Cypr[ae]a}.
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   Note: There are numerous species, many of them ornamental.
         Formerly {Cypr[ae]a moneta} and several other species
         were largely used as money in Africa and some other
         countries, and they are still so used to some extent.
         The value is always trifling, and varies at different
         places.
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