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kauri
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun kauri has 3 senses
- kauri(n = noun.substance) kauri copal, kauri gum, kauri resin - resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum; Array is a kind of copal
- kauri(n = noun.plant) agathis australis, kaury - tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood; Array is a member of agathis, genus agathis
- kauri(n = noun.plant) Array - white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis; Array is a kind of wood
is a kind of dammar pine, kauri pine
CIDE DICTIONARY
kauri, n. [Native name.].
A tall coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis australis , or Dammara australis ), having white straight-grained wood furnishing valuable timber and also yielding one kind of dammar resin . [1913 Webster]
kauri, n.
Kauri resin. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
kauri, n. (pl. kauris) a coniferous New Zealand tree, Agathis australis, which produces valuable timber and a resin.
Idiom
kauri-gum this resin.
Etymology
Maori
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