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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Cowrie \Cow"rie\ Cowry \Cow"ry\(kou"r[y^]), n.; pl. {Cowries}
   (-r[i^]z). [Hind. kaur[imac].] (Zo["o]l.)
   A marine shell of the genus {Cypr[ae]a}.

   Note: There are numerous species, many of them ornamental.
         Formerly {C. moneta} and several other species were
         largely used as money in Africa and some other
         countries, and they are still so used to some extent.
         The value is always trifling, and varies at different
         places.

资料来源 : WordNet®

cowry
     n : any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus
         Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked
         shells [syn: {cowrie}]