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Showing words for COWRIE using the English dictionary

6 Letter Words for Cowrie

cowier, cowrie

5 Letter Words for Cowrie

cower, owrie

4 Letter Words for Cowrie

cero, cire, coir, core, crew, crow, eric, icer, oeci, ower, rice, weir, weri, wice, wire, wore

3 Letter Words for Cowrie

ceo, cer, cie, cir, cor, cow, cro, cwo, eco, eir, ice, ire, iwo, oer, oie, orc, ore, owe, rec, rei, rew, rie, rio, roc, roe, roi, row, wer, wir, woe, wro

Definitions for Cowrie

[1] the highly polished, usually brightly colored shell of a marine gastropod of the genus Cypraea, as that of C. moneta (money cowrie) , used as money in certain parts of Asia and Africa, or that of C. tigris, used for ornament.
[2] the gastropod itself.
[3] any marine gastropod mollusc of the mostly tropical family Cypraeidae, having a glossy brightly marked shell with an elongated opening
[4] the shell of any of these molluscs, esp the shell of Cypraea moneta (money cowry ), used as money in parts of Africa and S Asia

Words nearby Cowrie

cowperitis, cowpoke, cowpox, cowps, cowpuncher, cowrie, cowrite, cowry, cowshed, cowskin, cowslip

Origin of Cowrie

First recorded in 1655–65, cowrie is from the Hindi word kaurī

Word origin for Cowrie

C17: from Hindi kaurī, from Sanskrit kaparda, of Dravidian origin; related to Tamil kōtu shell