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Definition of Cypraea moneta
1. Noun. Cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of the southern Pacific and in parts of Africa.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cypraea Moneta
Literary usage of Cypraea moneta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Institutes of Economics: A Succinct Text-book of Political Economy : for the by Elisha Benjamin Andrews (1900)
"... nearly all over the world, especially in the shallow waters of the Indian Ocean.
There are over 100 species. The one in question is the cypraea moneta ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1895)
"One of the commonest species thus employed is the ' money cowry ' (Cypraea moneta,
L.), which stands almost alone in being used entire, while nearly all the ..."
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