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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 kau·ri /ˈkaʊ(ə)ri/
 一種高大松樹

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.]

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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