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Dammara australis

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.]

Dammara australis

Pitch \Pitch\, n. [OE. pich, AS. pic, L. pix; akin to Gr. ?.]

  1. A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.

    He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
    --Ecclus. xiii. 1.

  2. (Geol.) See Pitchstone.

    Amboyna pitch, the resin of Dammara australis. See Kauri.

    Burgundy pitch. See under Burgundy.

    Canada pitch, the resinous exudation of the hemlock tree ( Abies Canadensis); hemlock gum.

    Jew's pitch, bitumen.

    Mineral pitch. See Bitumen and Asphalt.

    Pitch coal (Min.), bituminous coal.

    Pitch peat (Min.), a black homogeneous peat, with a waxy luster.

    Pitch pine (Bot.), any one of several species of pine, yielding pitch, esp. the Pinus rigida of North America.