Cowry
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- cowrie
- plural
- Cowries
- possessive
- Cowry's
- pluralpossessive
- Cowries'