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
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