ETYM Native name.
1. Resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum; SYN. kauri copal, kauri resin, kauri gum.
2. Tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood; SYN. kaury, Agathis australis.
3. White close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis.
Gum- and timber-yielding tree of New Zealand; its white timber; its resin found in lumps in ground.