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KAURY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does kaury mean?
• KAURY (noun)
The noun KAURY has 1 sense:
1. tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood
Familiarity information: KAURY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Agathis australis; kauri; kaury
Hypernyms ("kaury" is a kind of...):
dammar pine; kauri pine (any of various trees of the genus Agathis; yield dammar resin)
Holonyms ("kaury" is a member of...):
Agathis; genus Agathis (kauri pine)
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