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单词 Cowry shell
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Cowry shell

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The way we have standard units like meters or degrees, early accounting used units like cowry shells or shekels of grain.

我们使用米或度等标准单位的方式,早期会计使用贝壳或谢克尔谷物等单位。

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Cowry

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A print from 1845 shows cowry shells being used as money by an Arab trader.
Shells of various species of cowries; all but one have their anterior ends pointing towards the top of the page in this image
A live map cowry Cypraea mappa in East Timor
Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes (1873)

Cowry or cowrie, plural cowries, is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. The word cowry is also often used to refer only to the shells of these snails, which overall are often shaped more or less like an egg, except that they are rather flat on the underside.

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