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COWRY , the popular name of the shells of the Cypraeida, a See also:family of mollusks. Upwards of too See also:species are recognized, and they are widely distributed over the world—their See also:habitat being the shallow See also:water along the See also:sea-See also:shore. The best known is the See also:money cowry or Cypraea moneta, a small See also:- SHELL
- SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)
shell about See also:half an See also:inch in length, See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white and See also:straw-coloured without and See also:blue within, which derives its distinctive name from the fact that in various countries it has been employed as a See also:kind of currency. (See SHELL-MONEY.) In See also:Africa among those tribes, such as the Niam-Niam, who do not recognize their monetary value, the shells are in demand as fashionable decorations, just as in See also:Germany they were in use as an See also:ornament for horses' See also:harness, and were popular enough to acquire several native names, such as Brustharnisch or breastplates, and Otterkdpfchen or little adders' heads. Besides the Cypraea moneta various species are employed in this decorative use. The Cypraea See also:aurora is a See also:mark of chieftain-See also:ship among the natives of the Friendly Islands; the Cypraea annulus is. a favourite with the See also:Asiatic islanders; and several of the larger kinds have been used in See also:Europe for the See also:carving of cameos. The See also:tiger cowry, Cypraea See also:tigris, so well known as a mantelpiece ornament in See also:England and See also:America, is commonly used by the natives of the See also:Sandwich Islands to sink their nets; and they have also an ingenious See also:plan of cementing portions of several shells into a smooth See also:oval See also:ball which they then employ as a bait to catch the cuttle-See also:fish. While the species already mentioned occur in myriads in their respective habitats, the Cypraea princeps and the Cypraea umbilicata are extremely rare.
COW-See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
TREE, or See also:MILK-TREE, Brosimum Galactodendron (natural See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order See also:Moraceae), a native of See also:Venezuela. As in other members of the order, the See also:stem contains a milky latex, which flows out in considerable quantities when a notch is cut in it. The " milk " is sweet and pleasant tasting. Another species, B. Alicastrum, the See also:bread-See also:nut tree, a native of central America and See also:Jamaica, bears a See also:fruit which is cooked and eaten. The bread-fruit (Artocarpus) is an allied genus of the same natural order.
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