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Definition of Kauri resin
1. Noun. Resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kauri Resin
Literary usage of Kauri resin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select extra-tropical plants readily eligible for industrial culture or by Ferdinand Jacob H. Mueller (1880)
"It yields, besides, the kauri resin of commerce, which is largely got from under
the stem of the tree. The greatest part is gathered by the Maoris in ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1894)
"In order, if possible, to obtain samples of boiled oil and kauri-resin in ...
A sample of clear kauri- resin was also heated in a retort until it had lost ..."
3. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"In the case of kauri resin only vegetable debris and mineral matters are left,
... A fair approximation to the amount of dammar present in kauri resin can ..."
4. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"... and it is calculated that in various parts of Auckland as many as 2000 men
have found employment at one time digging up the kauri resin. ..."
5. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales by Royal Society of New South Wales (1901)
""Several species of Dammara are given as the sources of kauri resin in New ...
give one more quotation:—"kauri resin. A report from Noumea by M. Formet ..."
6. The Manufacture of Varnishes and Kindred Industries: Based on and Including by John Geddes M'Intosh, Achille Livache (1908)
"The fossil kauri resin of New Caledonia dissolves completely in three-fourths of
its weight of ... The kauri resin is mainly exported to Great Britain and ..."
7. New Zealand Forestry by David Ernest Hutchins (1919)
"Old "gum-diggers" have assured me that kauri resin from green trees has the ...
It seems that what is required for rational kauri resin-tapping is a man ..."
8. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"To this genus belongs also Agathis Australis, the Kauri pine (qv) of New Zealand,
which produces the resin known as kauri resin, or Kauri gum. ..."
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