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Kauri

noun

(Written also kaudi, kaury, cowdie, and cowrie)

Resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum. Synonyms: kauri copal, kauri gum, kauri resin.

Tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood. Synonyms: Agathis australis, kaury.

White close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis.

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... branches, which render it specially suitable for the decoration of winter gardens, corridors, and such like situations, where no great amount of heat is required. In the northern island of New Zealand, however, it is quite another matter, for there, where it is known as the Kauri Pine, it furnishes the most valuable of timbers, as may be judged from the fact that the trunk of the tree attains a height of from 50 to 100 feet clear of the branches; moreover, it yields a gum resin like copal, which exudes from the trunk, and which is sometimes found below ground in the ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 • Various

Words linked to "Kauri" : Agathis, copal, wood, genus Agathis, dammar pine, kauri gum