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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Kauri \Ka"u*ri\, n. [Native name.] (Bot.)
A lofty coniferous tree of New Zealand {Agathis, or Dammara,
australis}), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind
of dammar resin. [Written also {kaudi}, {cowdie}, and
{cowrie}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Kauri \Kau"ri\, n.
a Kauri resin.
b By extension, any of various species of {Dammara}; as
the red kauri ({D. lanceolata}).
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
kauri
n 1: resin of the kauri trees of N Zealand; found usually as a
fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum
[syn: {kauri copal}, {kauri resin}, {kauri gum}]
2: tall timber tree of New Zealand having white
straight-grained wood [syn: {kaury}, {Agathis australis}]
3: white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis
especially Agathis australis
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