Definitions for kauri

kauri kau·ri

Spelling: [kou-ree]
IPA: /ˈkaʊ ri/

Kauri is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in kauri (aikru).

Definitions for kauri

noun

  1. Also, kauri pine. a tall, coniferous tree, Agathis australis, of New Zealand, yielding a valuable timber and a resin.
  2. the wood of this tree.
  3. any of various other trees of the genus Agathis.
  4. kauri resin.

Origin of kauri

Borrowed into English from Maori around 1815-25

Examples for kauri

Lopez had reasons for thinking that kauri gum must have a great rise.

Of all the forest trees the kauri pine has been one of the most valuable—has been, because not many trees are left.

He could not find an individual so enterprising as to venture to deal in a cargo of kauri gum after his fashion.

These trees were the celebrated kauri pine, from which a valuable gum is extracted.

kauri is the fossil gum of a cone-bearing tree dug from the ground in northern New Zealand.

The deposits of the kauri gum in the Auckland district seem to be inexhaustible.

The sides were made out of one wide plank of kauri pine without a join.

As she was to call at New Zealand to get some kauri spars, five Maoris went with her, working their passage over.

One often sees, however, forests where the kauri reigns supreme, quite unmixed with other trees.

The British slept that night without tents round fires of kauri gum, but next morning all was astir for the attack.

Word Value for kauri
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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