- Cowrie - Wikipedia
Cowrie or cowry (pl cowries) is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails in the family Cypraeidae Cowrie shells have held cultural, economic, and ornamental significance in various cultures The cowrie was the shell most widely used worldwide as shell money
- Cowrie SSH Telnet Honeypot - GitHub
What is Cowrie Cowrie is a medium to high interaction SSH and Telnet honeypot designed to log brute force attacks and the shell interaction performed by the attacker
- Cowrie | Sea Snail, Shells, Mollusk | Britannica
Cowrie, any of several marine snails of the subclass Prosobranchia (class Gastropoda) comprising the genus Cypraea, family Cypraeidae The humped, thick shell is beautifully coloured (often speckled) and glossy; the apertural lips, which open into the first whorl in the shell, are inrolled and may
- Cowries, Their Beautiful, Valuable Shells and Money - Facts and Details
Cowries are marine gastropods from the family Cypraeidae found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans They have shiny, patterned shells much sought after by collectors When the animal is alive the shell is covered by a flap of skin which is part of a brightly-colored mantle
- Cowries, Family Cypraeidae
Hawaii has many endemic cowries, prized by collectors around the world Some are rare such as live-collected Ostergaard's cowries worth several thousand dollars For unknown reasons, some common Indo-Pacific species are rare locally, and tend to be larger than average Proper care must be exercised to avoid ruining cowries
- COWRIE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of COWRIE is any of various marine gastropods (family Cypraeidae) that are widely distributed in warm seas and have glossy and often brightly colored shells; also : the shell of a cowrie
- COWRIE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
Beads of hard cheese, two inches in diameter, are strung like a necklace of cowrie shells or a rosary, fifty to a hundred on a string
- COWRIE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
the highly polished, usually brightly colored shell of a marine gastropod of the genus Cypraea, as that of C moneta (money cowrie), used as money in certain parts of Asia and Africa, or that of C tigris, used for ornament
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