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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Cowries (0.01762 detik)
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: cowrie
cowrie
n : any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus
Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked
shells [syn:
cowry]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Cowries
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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
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