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Tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood
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kaury
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood [syn: kauri , Agathis australis ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 , ...
Usage examples of kaury.
There, too, the colonists again found groups of magnificent kauries, their cylindrical trunks, crowded with a cone of verdure, rising to a height of two hundred feet.
The most frequently occurring trees were kauries and eucalypti of gigantic dimensions.