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Kauri

noun

(Written also kaudi, kaury, cowdie, and cowrie)

Resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum. Synonyms: kauri copal, kauri gum, kauri resin.

Tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood. Synonyms: Agathis australis, kaury.

White close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis.

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... singular plant of the Coniferae family, called the Kauri pine. It forms a tree 150 to 200 feet in height, and produces a hard, brittle resin-like copal, which ...

— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders

... tenax), a kind of marsh hemp, yields a fibre used in making cordage. The kauri pine furnishes the chief supply of lumber. A fossil kauri gum is collected for export; it makes a varnish almost equal to Japanese lacquer. Gold is mined, and there being no mint, all the bullion is exported. The only manufactures are those ...

— Commercial Geography - A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges • Jacques W. Redway

Words linked to "Kauri" : dammar pine, genus Agathis, Agathis, kaury, wood, copal