Kaury

3 definitions found

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

  kaury \kaury\ n.
     Same as {kauri}.
  
     Syn: kauri, {Agathis australis}.
          [WordNet 1.5]



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]:

  kaury
       n : tall timber tree of New Zealand having white
           straight-grained wood [syn: {kauri}, {Agathis australis}]