cypraea tigris

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   cowrie whose shell is used for ornament

   Synonymstiger cowrie

   Broadercowrie

Questions about cypraea tigris

What does cypraea tigris mean?

cypraea tigris means "cowrie whose shell is used for ornament".

What is another word for cypraea tigris?

Close synonyms include tiger 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 tigris a common word?

cypraea tigris 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.