cowry

common name for a group of sea snails
Taxon organisms_known_by_a_particular_common_name Q366291
cowry
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cowry

Summary

cowry is an organisms known by a particular common name[1]. cowry draws 749 Wikipedia views per month (organisms_known_by_a_particular_common_name category, ranking #162 of 423).[2]

Key Facts

  • cowry's video is recorded as Cypraea caputserpentis.ogv[3].
  • cowry's image is recorded as Cypraea caputserpentis.jpg[4].
  • cowry's instance of is recorded as organisms known by a particular common name[5].
  • cowry's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85033664[6].
  • cowry's Commons category is recorded as Cowrie shells[7].
  • cowry's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01t9k_[8].
  • cowry's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9].
  • cowry's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[10].
  • cowry's described by source is recorded as Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[11].
  • cowry's this taxon is source of is recorded as cowrie shell[12].
  • cowry's different from is recorded as Agathis[13].
  • cowry's different from is recorded as Q114035382[14].
  • cowry's different from is recorded as cowry[15].
  • cowry's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2053604[16].
  • cowry's Banglapedia ID is recorded as Cowrie[17].
  • cowry's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779059863[18].
  • cowry's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007531270905171[19].
  • cowry's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 01956002-n[20].
  • cowry's Wellcome Collection concept ID is recorded as rrnyyrnu[21].
  • cowry's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/6bcbe91d-63d6-4cb8-b63e-15e371172dfa[22].

Why It Matters

cowry draws 749 Wikipedia views per month (organisms_known_by_a_particular_common_name category, ranking #162 of 423).[2] cowry has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] cowry is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_cowry_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{cowry}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/cowry}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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