Cypraean.
/sʌɪˈpriːə/ Zoology.
The extensive genus of gastropods containing the cowries.
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1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 153 Cypræa, an ovate and vaulted univalve.
1834 C. M. Yonge Let. 4 July in C. R. Coleridge C.M. Yonge (1903) iv. 123 I send..Jane a cyprea.
1913 B. B. Woodward Life of Mollusca vi. 97 The young Cowry shell (Cypræa) has a thin, sharp lip.
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cyˈpraeid n. a gastropod of the cowrie family, Cypræidæ.
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cyˈpraeiform adj.
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cyˈpraeoid adj. resembling or allied to the cowries.
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