[kau.ri] n [Maori kawri] (1823) 1: any of various trees (genus Agathis) of the araucaria family; esp: a tall timber tree (A. australis) of New Zealand having fine white straight-grained wood
2: a light-colored to brown resin from the kauri tree found as a fossil in the ground or collected from living trees and used esp. in varnishes and linoleum--called also kauri gum, kauri resin