Kauri

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kauri \Kau"ri\, n.
     (a) Kauri resin.
     (b) By extension, any of various species of {Dammara}; as,
         the red kauri ({Dammara lanceolata}).
         [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Kauri gum
         Kauri resin



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kauri \Ka"u*ri\, n. [Native name.] (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}. [Written also {kaudi}, {kaury}, {cowdie}, and
     {cowrie}.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  kauri
       n 1: resin of the kauri trees of New 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