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Kauri \Ka"u*ri\, n. [Native name.] (Bot.)
A tall coniferous tree of New Zealand {Agathis australis}, or
{Dammara australis}), having white straight-grained wood
furnishing valuable timber and also yielding one kind of
{dammar resin}. [Written also {kaudi}, {kaury}, {cowdie}, and
{cowrie}.]
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Cowrie \Cow"rie\ (-r[y^]), n. (Bot.)
Same as {Kauri}.
[1913 Webster] Cowrie


Cowrie \Cow"rie\ Cowry \Cow"ry\(kou"r[y^]), n.; pl. {Cowries}
(-r[i^]z). [Hind. kaur[imac].] (Zool.)
A marine shell of the genus {Cypr[ae]a}.
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Note: There are numerous species, many of them ornamental.
Formerly {Cypr[ae]a moneta} and several other species
were largely used as money in Africa and some other
countries, and they are still so used to some extent.
The value is always trifling, and varies at different
places.
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