kaury
Americannoun
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kauries
plural
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There, too, the colonists again found groups of magnificent kauries, their cylindrical trunks, crowded with a cone of verdure, rising to a height of two hundred feet.
From The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
The most frequently-occurring trees were kauries and eucalypti of gigantic dimensions.
From The Secret of the Island by William Henry Giles Kingston
There, too, the colonists again found groups of magnificent kauries, their cylindrical trunks, crowned with a cone of verdure, rising to a height of two hundred feet.
From The Secret of the Island by William Henry Giles Kingston
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