Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the older and now accepted name for the genus of Coniferæ commonly known as Dammara (which see).
- noun In zoology, a genus of ichneumon-flies, of the family Braconidæ.
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- noun kauri pine
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Black hardware, agathis les paul influenced body, 3-piece mahogany set-neck with a rosewood fingerboard (XJ frets) and neck binding.
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This Pacifica guitar features agathis body, maple neck, rosewood fretboard, volume and tone controls, tremolo bridge, and multiple pick-up control.
Dealhack 2009
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I wouldn't buy anything made out of agathis, but then again, at that price range it doesn't really matter anyway.
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It has agathis back, sides and top and a mahogony neck with a rosewood fretboard.
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He had also sown the seed of many trees which the second year bear flowers or fruit; such as the agathis, encircled with long clusters of white flowers which hang from it like the crystal pendants of a chandelier; the Persian lilac, which lifts high in air its gray flax-coloured branches; the pappaw tree, the branchless trunk of which forms a column studded with green melons, surmounted by a capital of broad leaves similar to those of the fig-tree.
Paul et Virginie. English Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 1775
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i would, personally, prefer an LTD or ibanez in that price range (as long as its not an agathis bodied LTD, EWWW!)
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