cowrie : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cowrie	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for cowrie
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cowrie n any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells Synonym(s): cowrie, cowry
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Kauri \[d8]Ka"u*ri\, n. [Native name.] (Bot.) A lofty coniferous tree of New Zealand {Agathis, [or] Dammara, australis}), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind of dammar resin. [Written also {kaudi}, {cowdie}, and {cowrie}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cowrie \Cow"rie\ (-r[ycr]), n. (Bot.) Same as {Kauri}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cowrie \Cow"rie\ Cowry \Cow"ry\(kou"r[ycr]), n.; pl. {Cowries} (-r[icr]z). [Hind. kaur[imac].] (Zo[94]l.) A marine shell of the genus {Cypr[91]a}. Note: There are numerous species, many of them ornamental. Formerly {C. 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.