How To Use Kauri In A Sentence
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The kauri is a New Zealand endemic found only in this ecoregion.
Northland temperate kauri forests
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Timbers - jarrah, kauri, macrocarpa - were hand adzed to ‘give them a woody character, and the forest origin of the timber is not lost.’
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The solid kauri counter, twenty feet in length, was piled with goods on both sides of the cash register and around the scales.
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They are one of the world's old, (relatively) unchanged species, much, much older than the species I think of as old, like sharks and kauri trees, and they have some pretty interesting and strange habits.
My Own (Borrowed) Menagerie
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The wry humour and lightness of spirit in Kaurismäki's films ally them with the very bittersweet comedies of Alexander Mackendrick as well as the mercilessly austere dramas of his other cinematic godhead, Robert Bresson.
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The philosophy was that instead of planting more pines, we would introduce rimu, kauri and miro that would have a 400-year lifespan, rather than 100.
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Commercial logging has intensively focused on two species: kauri (Agathis macrophylla) and sandalwood (Santalum austrocaledonicum).
Vanuatu rain forests
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A total of 340 acres was silviculturally treated, the work including underscrubbing and thinning of beech forests and the release of kauri saplings from competing scrub.
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Kowhais, kauris, kanukas, lacebarks, lemonwoods, and other species surround the house lawns while older tanekahas and pines define the top boundary with Kauri Grove.
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The first Labour government, which presided over our centennial celebrations, saw the planting of many a kauri or pohutukawa.
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There are easy all-weather walks at the Cascade / Kauri area in the north and Karamatura Valley beyond Huia on the Manukau harbour.
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The piles were tarred ironbark and the beams were kauri with iron brackets to brace them.
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Inside, the wooden kauri architraves and sweeping stairs were all carved with acorns and oak leaves.
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From the moment the first humans settled here they cut a swathe of destruction through everything from kauri to kakapo.
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Come to think of it, even the auteurs in this iteration are pleasing crowds, to judge by Le Havre by Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki, and The Descendants from Alexander Payne about which more later.
Erica Abeel: Apocalypse: If Not Now, Maybe Next Week?
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There are additional endemic plants in kauri forests, such as taraire (Beilschmiedia tarairi).
Northland temperate kauri forests
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The piles were tarred ironbark and the beams were kauri with iron brackets to brace them.
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The fossil resins -- often erroneously called gums -- amber, kauri, copal, etc., though interestingly related to the hydro-carbons enumerated on the preceding pages, form no essential part of the series, and demand only the briefest notice here.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882
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Timbers - jarrah, kauri, macrocarpa - were hand adzed to ‘give them a woody character, and the forest origin of the timber is not lost.’
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The rain forest is characterized by upper strata species such as piccabeen palm Archontophoenix cunninghamiana, hoop pine Araucaria cunninghamii, kauri pine Agathis robusta and carrol Backhousia myrtifolia.
Fraser Island, Australia
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Several women incorporate woven grasses and native timber such as totara and kauri, and use these media to interpret their particular geography and history.
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The timber of the kauri is the most valuable production of the island; moreover, a quantity of resin oozes from the bark, which is sold at a penny a pound to the
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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Plenty large enough to begin with, not less than sixteen feet long by twelve wide, and at least eleven high, all wood, not papered or painted, which I like much, as the kauri is a darkish grained wood; no carpet of course, but I am writing now at 10 P.M., with no fire, and quite warm.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson
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The Catholic Church of St Patrick was built of totara, black pine and kauri in 1864 after two earlier buildings had been destroyed, the first by fire and the second by a violent storm.
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Tiare and jasmine shouted happy stories across continents, magnolias made mad love as their roots stretched deep into the wet fertile soil, while sequoia and kauri reached with their arms toward heaven.
Time to Rest
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In Thomas Horton's reign, he pruned back further, replacing with deciduous exotics and natives, including kauri planted in regimental lines.
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This morning I woke to a few young Kauri trees, a couple of twittering fantails and the most crystal blue, pristine sky with a fat orange orb peeking between the trees.
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The common broadleaf tree species in mixed kauri forest include: tanekaha (Phyllocladus trichomanoides), towai (Weinmannia silvicola), kanuka (Kunzea ericoides), rewarewa (Knightia excelsa), and hinau (Elaeocarpus dentatus).
Northland temperate kauri forests
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France has instead put forward Valérie Donzelli's cancer drama Declaration of War; Germany has offered Wim Wenders's Pina; Israel has proposed Joseph Cedar's excellent Footnote opening the UK Jewish film festival next month; and Finland has had no hesitation in entering Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre, even though it is shot in France, in French.
Trailer trash
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Here, unusual and ancient giant ferns are frequent, as are scribbly gums and eucalypts, while in places kauri and satinay pines reach high for the sky.
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In the 21st century, thousands of people still come for the kauri, but they are sightseers, not hard-working foresters and settlers.
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dinosaur forests", unusual birds and living fossils such as tuatara, giant kauri snails and mute frogs.
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In 1901 a new homestead had been built of kauri and lined with macrocarpa.
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The timber of the kauri is the most valuable production of the island; moreover, a quantity of resin oozes from the bark, which is sold at a penny a pound to the Americans, but its use was then unknown.
Chapter XVIII
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Daniel Kasman on Lights in the Dusk: "The strong emphasis on [Aki] Kaurismäki's staging places the plot at such a distance that the story and acting seem banal and overworn while the look is utterly refined.
GreenCine Daily: Fests and events, 2/26.
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The piles were tarred ironbark and the beams were kauri with iron brackets to brace them.
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Maybe it's the swampy landscape littered with piles of gnarly kauri rescued from the deep wet soil and the knowledge that this timber once helped shape the country's colonial beginnings, but is no more.