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kauri|ˈkaʊrɪ|
Also cowry, -ie, cowdi(e, kourie, kowdie, kowrie.
[Maori kauri, in Lee's New Zeal. Vocab. (1820) written kaudi, r and d interchanging in Maori.]
A tall coniferous tree of New Zealand (Agathis or Dammara australis), which furnishes valuable timber and a resin known as kauri-gum.
1823R. A. Cruise Ten Months New Zeal. 145 (Morris) The banks of the river were found to abound with cowry. 1835W. Yate Acc. New Zeal. 37 (ibid.) As a shrub..the kauri is not very graceful. 1852Mundy Our Antipodes (1857) 128 Thirteen fine young Kauris varying in girth from that of a quarter cask to a hogshead. 1883Renwick Betrayed 47 As some tall Kauri soars in lonely pride.
b. attrib. and Comb., as kauri bush, kauri forest, kauri pine, kauri spar, kauri trade, kauri tree, kauri wood; also kauri-gum, -resin, the fossil resin of kauri, used as a varnish (cf. dammar); obtained in quantities by digging where the trees have formerly grown.
[1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 204 Gum kauri, or Australian copal.] 1852Mundy Our Antipodes (1857) 127 A forest of the Kauri pine, the pride of the New Zealand Sylva. Ibid. 185 Intending to touch in that country to get Kauri spars. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade 111/2 From the fossil deposits..the kowrie resin of commerce is obtained. 1867Hochstetter New Zeal. 148 The Kauri pine yields..a second very valuable product, the Kauri gum. 1875Ure Dict. Arts III. 25 Kourie wood..It is also called cowdie and kaurie wood. 1899T. Kirk Forest Flora N. Z. 143 When the timber was first introduced into Britain it was termed ‘cowrie’ or ‘kowdie-pine’. |