kaurin.
/ˈkaʊri/, U.S. /ˈkaʊri/ A tall coniferous tree of New Zealand ( Agathis or Dammara australis), which furnishes valuable timber and a resin known as kauri-gum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular tree or plant yielding useful gum or resin > [adjective]
lentiscinec1420
terebinthine?1550
kauri1823
terebinthaceous1830
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular tree or plant yielding useful gum or resin > [noun] > dammar tree
amboyna wood1738
kauri1823
dammar tree1832
wax-pine1891
1823 R. A. Cruise Jrnl. Ten Months' Resid. N.Z. 145 The banks of the river were found to abound with cowry.
1835 W. Yate Acct. of N.Z. 37 As a shrub..the kauri is not very graceful.
1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes II. vi. 146 Thirteen fine young Kauris varying in girth from a quarter cask to a hogshead.
1883 F. S. Renwick Betrayed 47 As some tall Kauri soars in lonely pride.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as kauri bush, kauri forest, kauri pine, kauri spar, kauri trade, kauri tree, kauri wood.
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1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes II. vi. 143 A forest of the Kauri pine, the pride of the New Zealand Sylva.
1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes II. xiv. 401 Intending to touch in that country to get Kauri spars.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 25 Kourie wood..It is also called cowdie and kaurie wood.
1899 T. Kirk Forest Flora N.Z. 143 When the timber was first introduced into Britain it was termed ‘cowrie’ or ‘kowdie-pine’.
C2.
kauri gum n. the fossil resin of kauri, used as a varnish (cf. dammar n.), and obtained in quantities by digging where the trees have formerly grown.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > resins > others
Highgate1813
lucullite1819
guayaquillite1838
fichtelite1844
ixolite1846
branchite1851
xyloretin1852
retinite1853
anthracoxene1858
kauri resin1858
tasmanite1864
kauri gum1867
xyloretinite1868
wheelerite1874
ionite1877
muckite1879
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > mineral and fossil resins > [noun] > fossil resin of kauri tree
gum1839
kauri gum1867
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. I. 204 Gum kauri, or Australian copal.]
1867 F. von Hochstetter N.Z. 148 The Kauri pine yields..a second very valuable product, the Kauri gum.
kauri resin n. = kauri gum n.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > resins > others
Highgate1813
lucullite1819
guayaquillite1838
fichtelite1844
ixolite1846
branchite1851
xyloretin1852
retinite1853
anthracoxene1858
kauri resin1858
tasmanite1864
kauri gum1867
xyloretinite1868
wheelerite1874
ionite1877
muckite1879
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 111/2 From the fossil deposits..the kowrie resin of commerce is obtained.
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