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Kauri   Listen
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Kauri  n.  (Written also kaudi, kaury, cowdie, and cowrie)  (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.


Kauri  n.  
1.
Kauri resin.
2.
By extension, Any of various species of Dammara; as, the red kauri (Dammara lanceolata).





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"Kauri" Quotes from Famous Books



... Wilhelm von Humboldt, the diplomat, and brother to Alexander, the great German explorer and philosophic writer. Besides his services as a statesman at the time of the international conferences at Paris and Vienna, he is distinguished for his philological researches in the Basque and Kauri languages. About the same time Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish author, published his first collection of fairy tales. The book had an immediate success, and after its translation into German achieved a world-wide reputation. Various translations ...
— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson
... trees are evergreens, and so abundant is the grass that at all times of the year the islands are green from the mountain summits to the sea. Of all the forest trees the kauri pine has been one of the most valuable—has been, because not many trees are left. The wood itself is about as easily worked as white pine or California redwood. What is still better, it is very tough ...
— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson
... part of New Zealand, together with some reference to past history. It does not attempt to handle the colony as a whole, but refers to scenes within the northern half of the North Island only. This part of the country, the natural home of the kauri pine, is what I here intend to specify under the ...
— Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) - or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand • William Delisle Hay
... seedling in the Maori's time, Now, toughened by a thousand gales, Straight stands the kauri in its prime, Fit mast for proudest ship ...
— War Rhymes • Abner Cosens


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