Meaning

noun resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum

noun tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood

noun white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis

originBorrowed from Māori kauri from Proto-Polynesian *kauquli, from *kau (“tree”) + *quli (“black”), originally referring to Samoan ebony ("Diospyros samoensis").

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