kauri gum
a hard resin from the kauri tree, found usually as a fossil in the soil where an extinct tree once grew: used chiefly in making varnishes
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How to use kauri gum in a sentence
He could not find an individual so enterprising as to venture to deal in a cargo of kauri gum after his fashion.
The Prime Minister | Anthony TrollopeThe British slept that night without tents round fires of kauri gum, but next morning all was astir for the attack.
History of Australia and New Zealand | Alexander SutherlandThere is a quantity of kauri gum, and many ornaments made from it—all a clear yellow amber colour.
By Forest Ways in New Zealand | F. A. RobertsFossil kauri gum has sold for one thousand to fifteen hundred dollars per ton.
The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties | Charles H. (Charles Henry) SnowIn places where old kauri forests have existed, digging kauri gum is a profitable employment.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania | Jewett Castello Gilson
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