Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun money_cowrie

1 sense of money cowrie

Sense 1
money cowrie, Cypraea moneta -- (cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of the southern Pacific and in parts of Africa)
       => cowrie, cowry -- (any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells)