kauri
- n resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum
- n tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood
- n white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis
- In New Zealand kauri gum diggers are becoming impoverished.
- British settlers readily adopted Maori names for indigenous animals and plants, from kakapo birds to kauri pines.