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单词 Cowrie shells
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Cowrie shells

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He gradually became aware that what had woken him was a very faint and tiny singing noise, a reedy little sound like the wind caught in a cowries shell, but with an edge of menace to it.

他渐渐意识到叫醒他的是一种非常微弱的歌声,一种芦苇般的细小声音,就像裹在牛皮壳里的风,但有一种威胁的边缘。

英语百科

Cowry

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A print from 1845 shows cowry shells being used as money by an Arab trader.
Shells of various species of cowries; all but one have their anterior ends pointing towards the top of the page in this image
A live map cowry Cypraea mappa in East Timor
Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes (1873)

Cowry or cowrie, plural cowries, is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. The word cowry is also often used to refer only to the shells of these snails, which overall are often shaped more or less like an egg, except that they are rather flat on the underside.

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