Usually means: Small, glossy, marine mollusk shell.
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  1. cowry: Merriam-Webster
  2. cowry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cowry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cowry: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cowry: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cowry, cowry: Wordnik
  7. cowry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cowry: Wiktionary
  9. cowry (cowrie): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cowry: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cowry: Dictionary.com
  12. Cowry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Cowry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. cowry: Rhymezone
  15. Cowry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. cowry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. cowry: FreeDictionary.org
  18. cowry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. cowry: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cowry: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Cowry)

▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of cowrie. [A small gastropod (Monetaria moneta, syn. Cypraea moneta) common in the Indian Ocean; its shell.]

Similar:
cowrie, Moneta, sycee, murex, beche, wampum, heishi, Shells, trepang, puka, more...

Opposite:
non-cowry, non-seashell, non-mollusk

Types:
money cowry, deer cowry, false cowry, pacific dogwhelk, atlas deer, mammillaria, more...

Phrases:
money cowry, panther cowry, orange cowry, more...

Adjectives:
large, small, little, single, white, golden, spotted, orange, common, new, extra

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Similar:
cowrie, Moneta, sycee, murex, beche, wampum, heishi, Shells, trepang, puka, more...

Opposite:
non-cowry, non-seashell, non-mollusk

Types:
money cowry, deer cowry, false cowry, pacific dogwhelk, atlas deer, mammillaria, more...

Phrases:
money cowry, panther cowry, orange cowry, more...

Adjectives:
large, small, little, single, white, golden, spotted, orange, common, new, extra



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