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3 definitions found 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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