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Definition of Kauri
1. Noun. Resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum.
2. Noun. Tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood.
Group relationships: Agathis, Genus Agathis
Generic synonyms: Dammar Pine, Kauri Pine
3. Noun. White close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis.
Definition of Kauri
1. n. A lofty coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis, or Dammara, australis), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind of dammar resin.
2. n. Kauri resin.
Definition of Kauri
1. Noun. (New Zealand) A large conifer of the family ''Araucariaceae''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kauri
1. a timber tree [n -S]
Medical Definition of Kauri
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Kauri
Literary usage of Kauri
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Zealand: Her Commerce and Resources by Gildroy W. Griffin (1884)
"kauri gum, which is so extensively used in the United States'for the manufacture of
... It consists of the dried and solidified sap of the kauri tree, ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"37 : " As a shrub, and during its youthful days, the kauri is not very graceful
... 140: "The kauri-pine is justly styled the Queen of the New Zealand ..."
3. The Manufacture of Varnishes and Kindred Industries: Based on and Including by John Geddes M'Intosh, Achille Livache (1908)
"The lumps of kauri vary greatly in size and may weigh as much as 15 to 18 Ib.
Fluckiger states he saw a lump of 120 Ib. at the Paris Exhibition of 1878. ..."
4. Select extra-tropical plants readily eligible for industrial culture or by Ferdinand Jacob H. Mueller (1880)
"Auckland alone exports about £20000 worth of kauri timber annually. ... It yields,
besides, the kauri resin of commerce, which is largely got from under the ..."
5. Adventure Guide to New Zealand by Bette Flagler (2005)
"The kauri Coast The kauri Coast isn't about big money, fancy lodges and snobby
wine bars. This coast is about having an unspoiled, un-commercialized ..."
6. New Zealand in Evolution: Industrial, Economic and Political by Guy Hardy Scholefield, William Pember Reeves (1909)
"... for the early navigators—kauri timber—The kauri forest—Durability of native
woods—Tests of strength—The wantonness of the pakeha—Axe and fire—Anxiety in ..."
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