kauri gum

British  

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

In New Zealand kauri gum diggers are becoming impoverished.

From Time Magazine Archive

The kauri gum forms a large figure in the table of exports from Auckland, and the digging and preparation of it for market, as we have shown, gives employment to many persons.

From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Ballou, Maturin Murray

A fossil kauri gum is collected for export; it makes a varnish almost equal to Japanese lacquer.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)

In places where old kauri forests have existed, digging kauri gum is a profitable employment.

From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello

Test No. 12 B. Primed with a heavy varnish containing Chinese wood oil and kauri gum.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Gardner, Henry A.