Associations to the word «Cowry»

Wiktionary

COWRY, noun. Any of the marine molluscs of the genus Cypraea.
COWRY, noun. The money cowry, Cypraea moneta.

Dictionary definition

COWRY, noun. Any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope