kauri gum

noun

a hard resin from the kauri tree, found usually as a fossil in the soil where an extinct tree once grew: used chiefly in making varnishes

He could not find an individual so enterprising as to venture to deal in a cargo of Kauri gum after his fashion.

The British slept that night without tents round fires of kauri gum, but next morning all was astir for the attack.

There is a quantity of kauri gum, and many ornaments made from it—all a clear yellow amber colour.

Fossil Kauri gum has sold for one thousand to fifteen hundred dollars per ton.

In places where old kauri forests have existed, digging kauri gum is a profitable employment.

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