cowry vs Cypraea moneta

cowry and Cypraea moneta both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cowry	Yes	No	No	No
Cypraea moneta	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Cypraea moneta is a hyponym of cowry; that is, Cypraea moneta is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cowry:

cowry: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells
Cypraea moneta: cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of the southern Pacific and in parts of Africa

Other hyponyms of cowry include money cowrie, Cypraea tigris, tiger cowrie.

cowry (noun)	Cypraea moneta (noun)
any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells	cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of the southern Pacific and in parts of Africa