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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of gastropods, type of the family Cyprœidœ; the cowries.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A genus of mollusks, including the cowries. See cowrie.

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