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kaury

kaury \kaury\ n. Same as kauri.

Syn: kauri, Agathis australis.

kaury

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.]

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kaury

n. tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood [syn: kauri, Agathis australis]

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.