cowrie in English

noun
1
a marine mollusk that has a smooth, glossy, domed shell with a long narrow opening, typically brightly patterned and popular with collectors.
We found tiny cowries on the soft corals and red spider crabs on the fans.
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    cowry

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1. Murex, tun, cowrie, cone, and turritella shells are all made by gastropods.

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3. 8 A Moken tribesman in Myanmar's Andaman Islands displays two large cowrie shells.

4. For example, cowrie shells were accepted as currency on the west coast of Africa.

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6. The family offered food to sticks with cowrie shells tied onto them.

7. 9 Moken tribesman in Myanmar's Andaman Islands displays two large cowrie shells.

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10. Cowrie (or Cowry) shells mimic the female sexual organ on one side, and a pregnant belly on the other side

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12. ‘Some organisms, such as nematodes and Ascidians, have a remarkably precise pattern of cell divisions in early development.’ ‘Boulders are infested with black tree corals, mussels, cowrie shells, soft and hard corals and Ascidians.’

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14. Words with 2 syllables: arrie, aumrie, Awmbrie, barie, cabrie, cherie, corrie, countrie, courie, cowrie, cuirie, curie, currie, dhurrie, durrie, erie, eyrie, feirie, ferie, flrie, gaurie, glaumrie, kerrie, kyrie, lourie, lowrie, mairie, marie, norie, ourie, pawkrie, perrie, petrie, pirrie, pourie, prairie, rouerie, slowrie, smytrie, tarie, tarrie, terrie, trashtrie, wastrie.

15. Cowry or cowrie, plural cowries, is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.The word Cowry is also often used to refer only to the shells of these snails, which overall are often shaped more or less like an egg, except that they are rather flat on the underside.