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- noun Plural form of
kauri .
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Examples
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“If I were to climb to the top of one of these kauris, I could survey the country for an immense distance round.”
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“If I were to climb to the top of one of these kauris, I could survey the country for an immense distance round.”
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The kauris measured a hundred feet high, before the ramification of the branches.
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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.
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Pines and redwoods, firs and kauris soon replaced weedy grasses and small-leaved brush, until they once again found themselves traipsing through forest.
A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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The kauris measured a hundred feet high, before the ramification of the branches.
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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.
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866
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Norwegian pine, the poplar of the north, mixing its branches with those of the New Zealand kauris.
Voyage au centre de la terre. English Jules Verne 1866
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Walking around this forest we were amused to hear a British accent complaining that 'they are not as big as the kauris in New Zealand'.
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