(n) resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum, Syn. kauri gum, kauri resin, kauri copal
‖n. [ Native name. ] (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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
{ or }. A resinous product of the kauri, found in the form of yellow or brown lumps in the ground where the trees have grown. It is used for making varnish, and as a substitute for amber. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]