kauri meaning

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kauri (noun): resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum.

kauri has 3 meanings in this dictionary.

kauri as a noun

  1. resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum

    Synonyms: kauri copal, kauri resin, kauri gum

    Type of: copal

  2. tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood

    Synonyms: kaury, Agathis australis

    Type of: kauri pine

  3. white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis

    Type of: wood

Scrabble score: 9 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with KA · words ending in RI · 5-letter words

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