Found 2 items, similar to cowrie.
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: cowrie 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.] [1913 Webster]