Crossword-Solution: COWRY 5 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

That little bright red and yellow pea, too, touch it—the brilliant coloured cloak is withdrawn, and, instead, you have a beautiful ribbed pink cowry, {140a} our only European representative of that grand tropical family.

His copper coinage was so uniformly good that the cowry disappeared altogether from commerce during his reign.

There was a porch at her door, both for shelter and shade, and it was covered with jasmine; but the charm of the place was a summer-house close by, containing a table, encrusted with cowry-shells, and seats from which one saw the distant waters of the bay.

She always received us with effusion, tripping forward to meet us, and leading us, each by a hand held high, with a dancing movement which I thought infinitely graceful, to the cowry-shell bower, where she would regale us with Devonshire cream and with small hard biscuits that were like pebbles.

Thus it contains seven species of Cypræa, some larger than any existing cowry of the Mediterranean, several species of _Oliva, Ancillaria, Mitra, Terebra, Pyrula, Fasciolaria,_ and _ Conus._ Of the cones there are no less than eight species, some very large, whereas the only European cone now living is of diminutive size.