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cowry

cowry is the alternative spelling of cowrie.

Meaning of cowrie

Noun

cowrie (plural cowries)

  1. A small gastropod (Monetaria moneta, syn. Cypraea moneta) common in the Indian Ocean; its shell.
    Synonyms:
    money cowrie, shell money, wampum
  2. (broadly, dated) Any gastropod of the genus Cypraea; its shell.
  3. (broadly) Any gastropod of the family Cypraeidae; its shell.

Forms of cowry

pluralcowries

Words formed from cowry

  • atlantic deer cowry
  • chestnut cowry
  • egg cowry
  • kernel cowry
  • money cowry
  • nucleus cowry
  • orange cowry
  • panther cowry
  • tiger cowry
  • wrinkled cowry

Questions about cowry

What is cowry the alternative spelling of?
Cowry is the alternative spelling of cowrie.

Words near cowry in the dictionary

  1. cowriters
  2. cowrites
  3. cowriting
  4. cowritten
  5. cowrote
  6. cowry
  7. cows
  8. cows and bulls
  9. cows' milk
  10. cowsense
  11. Cowser

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cowry (page history and authors); cowrie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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