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A lofty coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis, / Dammara, australis), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind of dammar resin.

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  1. n. A lofty coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis, / Dammara, australis), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind of dammar resin.
  2. n. resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum
  3. n. tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood
  4. n. white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis
  5. A lofty coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis, or Dammara, australis), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind of dammar resin. [Written also kaudi, cowdie, and cowrie.]
  6. A lofty coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis, or Dammara,australis), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind ofdammar resin. [Written also kaudi, cowdie, and cowrie.]
  7. 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