cowrie

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈkaʊ.ri]
• 美式音标 [ˈkaʊr.i]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n.[动]宝贝科宝贝；(从前南亚和非洲部分地区作货币用的)货贝

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• A Moken tribesman in Myanmar's Andaman Islands displays two large cowrie shells.
  缅甸安达曼群岛上，一位莫肯族人手里展示了两枚大货贝。
• Golden cowrie shells are among the hardest shells to find and are prized by collectors.
  黄金宝螺的贝壳极难找到，它们为收藏家所推崇。
• It is more likely that the beads were either simply fashionable throughout the region, or that they acted as currency, as cowrie shells did in some parts of Africa until historical times.
  更有可能的是，在那整个时代中，珠子不是一种遍布大陆的流行，就是作为一种流通货币的角色（由于玛瑙贝在历史上曾经在非洲的一部分被作为货币使用）。

权威例句

• Over the centuries, many things have served the purpose, from beads to cowrie shells to pigs.
  ECONOMIST: Cash remains king
• Congo's has a catanga cross (a large copper cross), while Equatorial Guinea has a pair of cowrie shells.
  FORBES: Living People On Legal Tender

词组短语

短语

• Cowrie Island 玛瑙贝岛;科瑞岛
• Egg Cowrie 海兔螺
• asellus cowrie 浮标宝螺
• Tiger Cowrie 黑星宝螺
• Chestnut Cowrie 宝螺

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a small sea creature with a soft body and a brightly coloured shell, or the shell itself used in the past as money in parts of Africa and southern Asia

柯林斯英英字典

• any marine gastropod mollusc of the mostly tropical family Cypraeidae, having a glossy brightly marked shell with an elongated opening

专业释义

生物学

• 宝贝科(cypraeidae) 宝贝,海蚆

经济学

• 玛瑙贝