kauri

3 definitions found

kauri - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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

  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]

kauri - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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, kauri copal, kauri resin, kauri gum]
      2: tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained
         wood [syn: kauri, kaury, Agathis australis]
      3: white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis
         especially Agathis australis