KAURI PINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kauri pine mean? 

• KAURI PINE (noun)
  The noun KAURI PINE has 1 sense:

1. any of various trees of the genus Agathis; yield dammar resin

  Familiarity information: KAURI PINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KAURI PINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various trees of the genus Agathis; yield dammar resin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

dammar pine; kauri pine

Hypernyms ("kauri pine" is a kind of...):

conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)

Meronyms (substance of "kauri pine"):

kauri (white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kauri pine"):

Agathis australis; kauri; kaury (tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood)

Agathis alba; Agathis dammara; amboina pine; amboyna pine (native to the Moluccas and Philippines; a source of dammar resin)

Agathis robusta; dundathu pine; queensland kauri; smooth bark kauri (Australian timber tree resembling the kauri but having wood much lighter in weight and softer)

Agathis lanceolata; red kauri (New Zealand tree with glossy leaves and scaly reddish-brown bark)

Holonyms ("kauri pine" is a member of...):

Agathis; genus Agathis (kauri pine)