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CYPRAEA

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Meaning:

Type genus of the family Cypraeidae: the typical cowries

Synonyms:

Cypraea; genus Cypraea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Cypraea" is a kind of...):

mollusk genus (a genus of mollusks)

Meronyms (members of "Cypraea"):

cowrie; cowry (any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells)

Holonyms ("Cypraea" is a member of...):

Cypraeidae; family Cypraeidae (family of marine gastropods comprising the cowries)

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