{
  "kauri":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a light-colored to brown resin from the kauri tree found as a fossil in the ground or collected from living trees and used especially in varnishes and linoleum":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8kau\u0307(-\u0259)r-\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The trunks of ancient kauri trees indicated that the Laschamp Excursion caused major extinctions. \u2014 Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper's Magazine , 27 Apr. 2021",
      "Scientists analyzed the rings found in ancient New Zealand kauri trees, some which had been preserved in sediments for more than 40,000 years, to create a timescale of how Earth's atmosphere changed over time. \u2014 Amy Woodyatt, CNN , 19 Feb. 2021",
      "In the past decade, a unique strain of phytophthora has been identified as targeting kauri . \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Jan. 2020",
      "Somewhere in the middle of New Zealand, there is a kauri tree stump (Agathis australis) that should not be alive. \u2014 Kelly Mayes, Science | AAAS , 25 July 2019",
      "Here are five prime suggestions, from a small forest in England to the gigantic kauri trees of New Zealand\u2019s Waipoua Forest. \u2014 George Stone, National Geographic , 29 Oct. 2019",
      "Sudden atmospherically driven changes in water relations in adjacent kauri trees were very rapidly and inversely mirrored in the living stump's water status. \u2014 Fox News , 26 July 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Maori kawri":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1823, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-050709"
  }
}