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Botany bay (medicine)


botany bay


A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.

Hence, any place to which desperadoes resort.

<medicine> Botany Bay kino, a resin of reddish yellow colour, resembling gamboge, the product of different Australian species of Xanthorrhaea, especially. The grass three (X. Hastilis)

Source: Websters Dictionary