4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Kauri \Ka"u*ri\, n. [Native name.] (Bot.) A tall coniferous tree of New Zealand {Agathis australis}, or {Dammara australis}), having white straight-grained wood furnishing valuable timber and also yielding one kind of {dammar resin}. [Written also {kaudi}, {kaury}, {cowdie}, and {cowrie}.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Cowrie \Cow"rie\ (-r[y^]), n. (Bot.) Same as {Kauri}. [1913 Webster] Cowrie From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Cowrie \Cow"rie\ Cowry \Cow"ry\(kou"r[y^]), n.; pl. {Cowries} (-r[i^]z). [Hind. kaur[imac].] (Zool.) A marine shell of the genus {Cypr[ae]a}. [1913 Webster] Note: There are numerous species, many of them ornamental. Formerly {Cypr[ae]a moneta} and several other species were largely used as money in Africa and some other countries, and they are still so used to some extent. The value is always trifling, and varies at different places. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: cowrie n : any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells [syn: {cowry}]
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