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Webster 1913 Edition
Botany Bay
Bot′a-ny 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.
Botany Bay kino
(Med.)
, an astringent, reddish substance consisting of the inspissated juice of several Australian species of
– Eucalyptus
. Botany Bay resin
(Med.)
, a resin of reddish yellow color, resembling gamboge, the product of different Australian species of
Xanthorrhæa
, esp. the grass tree (Xanthorrhæa hastilis
).