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Definition of 'kauri'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) kauri
the wood or resin of this tree.

Etymology: (1815–25; < Maori)

Definition of 'kauri'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) kauri, kauri copal, kauri resin, kauri gum
resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum

2. (noun) kauri, kaury, Agathis australis
tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood

3. (noun) kauri
white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis

Definition of 'kauri'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) kauri
a lofty coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis, / Dammara, australis), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind of dammar resin

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kaunda kauri kauri copal kauri gum kauri pine kauri resin kaury

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