how to pronounce cowrie

/ˈkaʊ.ɹi/

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cowrie is pronounced in two syllables

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meanings of cowrie

noun:

Any gastropod of the genus Cypraea; its shell.
Any gastropod of the family Cypraeidae; its shell.
A small gastropod (Monetaria moneta, syn. Cypraea moneta) common in the Indian Ocean; its shell.

cowrie frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word cowrie occurs in english on average 0.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics cowrie can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that cowrie can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;