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kaurie

kaurie is the alternative form 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 kaurie

pluralkauries

Questions about kaurie

What is kaurie the alternative form of?
Kaurie is the alternative form of cowrie.

Words near kaurie in the dictionary

  1. kauri gum
  2. kauri pine
  3. kauri pines
  4. kauri-butanol value
  5. kauri-butanol values
  6. kaurie
  7. kauries
  8. kauris
  9. Kaurna
  10. kauru
  11. Kaus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kaurie (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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