MONEY COWRIE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of the southern Pacific and in parts of Africa

Synonyms:

Cypraea moneta; money cowrie

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("money cowrie" is a kind of...):

cowrie; cowry (any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells)

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