Kauri \Ka"u*ri\, n. [Native name.]

(Bot.) A lofty coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis, or Dammara, australis), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind of dammar resin. [Written also kaudi, cowdie, and cowrie.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Cowrie \Cow"rie\ (-r[y^]), n. (Bot.) Same as Kauri.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Cowrie \Cow"rie\ Cowry \Cow"ry\(kou"r[y^]), n.; pl. Cowries (-r[i^]z). [Hind. kaur[imac].]

(Zo["o]l.) A marine shell of the genus Cypr[ae]a.

Note: There are numerous species, many of them ornamental. Formerly C. moneta and several other species were largely used as money in Africa and some other countries, and they are still so used to some extent. The value is always trifling, and varies at different places.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)