kauri

Other forms of kauri

plural

kauris·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about kauri

What does kauri mean?

kauri means "resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kauri?

kauri has 2 syllables: kau-ri. The stress falls on "kau".

What is another word for kauri?

Close synonyms include kauri copal, kauri resin, kauri gum, kaury, Agathis australis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kauri a common word?

kauri is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.