kau·ri /ˈkaʊ(ə)ri/
一種高大松樹
Ka·u·ri n. 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.]
Kau·ri n. (a) Kauri resin. (b) By extension, any of various species of Dammara; as, the red kauri (Dammara lanceolata).
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kauri
n 1: resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a
fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum
[syn: kauri copal, kauri resin, kauri gum]
2: tall timber tree of New Zealand having white
straight-grained wood [syn: kaury, Agathis australis]
3: white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis
especially Agathis australis