Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Kauri \Ka"u*ri\, n. [Native name.] (Bot.)
   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}.]

Kauri \Kau"ri\, n.
   (a) Kauri resin.
   (b) By extension, any of various species of {Dammara}; as,
       the red kauri ({D. lanceolata}).

Source : WordNet®

kauri
     n 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