Kauri synonyms

kou'rē

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Agathis australis
tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood
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kaury
tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood
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kauri copal
resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum
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kauri resin
resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum
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kauri gum
resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum
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  • Amber has often been imitated by other resins like copal and kauri, as well as by celluloid and even glass.

  • Buried in this clay-marl are found large deposits of the fossil resin which becomes the kauri gum of commerce; and on the surface extensive forests are still a great though diminishing source of wealth.

  • Though much of the timber is of commercial value - notably the kauri, totara, puriri, rimu, matai and kahikatea - this has not saved the forests from wholesale, often reckless, destruction.

  • Kauri gum still holds its place as an export, over £500,000 worth being dug up annually.

  • The number of Istrians and Dalmatians who came from the Adriatic to dig for kauri gum led to the passing of restrictive laws.

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