COWRIE Synonyms

• the shell of a marine organism

• ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun

• the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals

• hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles

• the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts

• the exterior covering of a bird's egg

• a rigid covering that envelops an object

• a very light narrow racing boat

• the housing or outer covering of something

• a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)

• the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod

• use explosives on

• create by using explosives

• fall out of the pod or husk

• hit the pitches of hard and regularly

• look for and collect shells by the seashore

• come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

• remove from its shell or outer covering

• remove the husks from

• meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)

• invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

• any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells

• informal terms for money

• small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency

• cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of the southern Pacific and in parts of Africa