cypraea moneta

1. 1.

   cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of the southern Pacific and in parts of Africa

   Synonymsmoney cowrie

   Broadercowrie

Questions about cypraea moneta

What does cypraea moneta mean?

cypraea moneta means "cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of the southern Pacific and in parts of Africa".

What is another word for cypraea moneta?

Close synonyms include money cowrie. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cypraea moneta a common word?

cypraea moneta is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.