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‖ Cypræa Zool.|saɪˈpriːə|
Also cyprea.
[mod.L. f. Cypria a name of Venus: cf. Venus-shell, Artemis, and other names of conchology.]
The extensive genus of gastropods containing the cowries. Hence cyˈpræid, a gastropod of the cowrie family, Cypræidæ. cyˈpræiform, cyˈpræoid adjs., resembling or allied to the cowries.
1822J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 153 Cypræa, an ovate and vaulted univalve. 1834C. M. Yonge Let. 4 July in C. Coleridge C.M.Y. (1903) iv. 123, I send..Jane a cyprea. 1913B. B. Woodward Life of Mollusca vi. 97 The young Cowry shell (Cypræa) has a thin, sharp lip. |