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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kauri gum

In New Zealand kauri gum diggers are becoming impoverished.

From Time Magazine Archive

For many years about a million dollars' worth of kauri gum was thus obtained each year.

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

The deposits of the kauri gum in the Auckland district seem to be inexhaustible.

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

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 Maturin Murray Ballou

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

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner