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Kauri n. (Written also kaudi, kaury, cowdie, and cowrie) (Bot.) 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.

Kauri n.

Kauri resin.

By extension, Any of various species of Dammara; as, the red kauri (Dammara lanceolata).

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Etymology of 'Kauri'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... singular plant of the Coniferae family, called the Kauri pine. It forms a tree 150 to 200 feet in height, and produces a hard, brittle resin-like copal, which ...

— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders

... tenax), a kind of marsh hemp, yields a fibre used in making cordage. The kauri pine furnishes the chief supply of lumber. A fossil kauri gum is collected for export; it makes a varnish almost equal to Japanese lacquer. Gold is mined, and there being no mint, all the bullion is exported. The only manufactures are those ...

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