Exact Match:
- cowrie
- any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- wampum
collapse - small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency related words >
- anklet,
- armlet,
- bangle,
- beads,
- bijou,
- blunt,
- boodle,
- bracelet,
- brass,
- bread,
- breastpin,
- brooch,
- bucks,
- cabbage,
- cash,
- chain,
- chaplet,
- charm,
- chatelaine,
- chips,
- circle,
- coin,
- coronet,
- cowrie,
- crown,
- currency,
- diadem,
- dinero,
- dough,
- earring,
- fob,
- gelt,
- gem,
- gilt,
- grease,
- green,
- green stuff,
- greenbacks,
- jack,
- jewel,
- kale,
- legal tender,
- locket,
- lucre,
- mazuma,
- moolah,
- mopus,
- necklace,
- nose ring,
- oil of palms,
- ointment,
- oof,
- ooftish,
- pin,
- precious stone,
- rhinestone,
- rhino,
- ring,
- roanoke,
- rocks,
- sewan,
- shekels,
- simoleons,
- spondulics,
- stickpin,
- stone,
- sugar,
- the needful,
- tiara,
- tin,
- torque,
- wristband,
- wristlet
- scallop
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- edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
- shape or cut in scallops; "scallop the hem of the dress"
- fish for scallops
- form scallops in; "scallop the meat"
- bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top
- decorate an edge with scallops; "the dress had a scalloped skirt" related words >
- Dungeness crab,
- Japanese crab,
- Vandyke,
- Vandyke edge,
- armadillo shell,
- bake,
- barbecue,
- baste,
- blanch,
- blaze,
- blue point,
- boil,
- braise,
- brew,
- broil,
- brown,
- chiton,
- chop,
- clam,
- clam shell,
- cockleshell,
- cockscomb,
- cocoa shell,
- coddle,
- conch,
- contort,
- cook,
- coquillage,
- corkscrew,
- cowrie,
- crab,
- crawdad,
- crawfish,
- crayfish,
- crenation,
- crenelation,
- crenellate,
- crenulate,
- crenulation,
- crest,
- crimp,
- crinkle,
- curry,
- cut,
- deckle edge,
- denticulation,
- dentil,
- dentil band,
- devil,
- do,
- do to perfection,
- dogtooth,
- eggshell,
- fire,
- fricassee,
- frizz,
- frizzle,
- fry,
- gash,
- griddle,
- grill,
- heat,
- incise,
- indent,
- intort,
- jag,
- knurl,
- langouste,
- limpet,
- littleneck clam,
- lobster,
- machicolate,
- meander,
- mill,
- mussel,
- nick,
- notch,
- notching,
- nutshell,
- oven-bake,
- oyster,
- oyster shell,
- pan,
- pan-broil,
- parboil,
- periwinkle,
- picot,
- pink,
- poach,
- prawn,
- prepare,
- prepare food,
- quahog,
- rickrack,
- roast,
- saute,
- saw,
- saw teeth,
- scarify,
- score,
- scotch,
- screw,
- sea shell,
- sear,
- serpentine,
- serrate,
- serration,
- shellfish,
- shirr,
- shrimp,
- simmer,
- slash,
- slink,
- snail,
- snake,
- soft-shell crab,
- steam,
- steamer,
- stew,
- stir-fry,
- swirl,
- toast,
- tooth,
- turn,
- twine,
- twirl,
- twist,
- twist and turn,
- whelk,
- whirl,
- whorl,
- wind,
- winkle,
- worm,
- wring
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