The cowry-shell, Cypraca europaea, is locally known as "John o' Groat's bucky." [Please select]
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In the morning, squatted on their haunches and chanting as they worked, the women scraped the rind from the fermented _mei_ with cowry shells, and grated the fruit into the pit which they had lined with banana leaves. [Please select]
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The root, well washed in the river, was laid on the stones, and the women attacked it with cowry-shells, scraping it into particles like slaw. [Please select]
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It would be a novelty even to Darling, especially if hers were made by glueing a tiny bag of emery into the mouth of a "boiled fowl cowry." [Please select]
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[286] Probably the cowry (Cypræa moneta). [Please select]