kauris
- plural of kauri.
Example Sentences
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The kauris measured a hundred feet high, before the ramification of the branches.
From In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant by Verne, Jules
The principal trees, both in number and size, were the kauris and eucalypti.
From The Mysterious Island by White, Stephen W.
Splendid kauris, disposed in groups, rose to a height of two hundred feet, their cylindrical trunks surmounted by a crown of verdure.
From The Mysterious Island by White, Stephen W.
“I have an idea, Mr. Spilett,” said Herbert, “supposing I climb to the top of one of these kauris, I could see, perhaps, for a good ways.”
From The Mysterious Island by White, Stephen W.
The oak and the palm were growing side by side, the Australian eucalyptus leaned against the Norwegian pine, the birch-tree of the north mingled its foliage with New Zealand kauris.
From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules
