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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Bot·a·ny Bay /ˈbɑtṇi/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.
 Note: 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).
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