Term: money cowrie: cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of the southern Pacific and in parts of Africa
Broader: cowrie: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Unrelated: gymnosophy: the doctrine of a sect of Hindu philosophers who practiced nudity and asceticism and meditation
Broader: cowrie: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Unrelated: eosin: a red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein; used in cosmetics and as a biological stain for studying cell structures
Broader: cowrie: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Unrelated: sublimation: (psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable
Broader: cowrie: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Unrelated: megabit: a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobits or 10^6 (1,000,000) bits
Broader: cowrie: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Unrelated: dirt: the state of being covered with unclean things
Broader: cowrie: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Unrelated: melting pot: an environment in which many ideas and races are socially assimilated
Broader: cowrie: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Unrelated: native: a person born in a particular place or country
Broader: cowrie: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Unrelated: sapphire: a transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
Broader: cowrie: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Unrelated: arabidopsis: a genus of the mustard family having white or yellow or purplish flowers; closely related to genus Arabis
Broader: cowrie: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Unrelated: crested wheatgrass: Eurasian grass grown in United States great plains area for forage and erosion control