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kauri
CIDE DICTIONARY
kauri, n. [Native name.].
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 . [1913 Webster]
kauri, n.
Kauri resin. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
kauri, n. (pl. kauris) a coniferous New Zealand tree, Agathis australis, which produces valuable timber and a resin.
Idiom
kauri-gum this resin.
Etymology
Maori
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