'Cowrie' definitions:
Definition of 'cowrie'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells [syn: cowrie, cowry]
Definition of 'Cowrie'
From: GCIDE
- Cowrie \Cow"rie\ (-r[y^]), n. (Bot.) Same as Kauri. [1913 Webster] Cowrie
Definition of 'Cowrie'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [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]
Definition of 'cowrie'
From: GCIDE
- 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]