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How to pronounce “cowrie”
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Pronunciation guide for cowrie
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of cowrie with real speech in context.
- Available examples
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- Real speech example
- Spineless: Portraits of Marine Invertebrates
ago photographing a tiger cowrie, a live tiger cowrie.
- Definition summary
- A small gastropod (Monetaria moneta, syn. Cypraea moneta) common in the Indian Ocean; its shell.
Example 1 of 1
How to pronounce cowrie
Spineless: Portraits of Marine Invertebrates

ago photographing a tiger cowrie, a live tiger cowrie.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “cowrie”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A small gastropod (Monetaria moneta, syn. Cypraea moneta) common in the Indian Ocean; its shell.
- (by extension, dated) Any gastropod of the genus Cypraea; its shell.
- (by extension) Any gastropod of the family Cypraeidae; its shell.
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