botany : Idioms & Phrases
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botany bay
Bot"a*ny Bay"
Definitions
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.
Webster 1913
botany bay fig
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noun Australian tree resembling the banyan often planted for ornament; introduced into South Africa for brushwood
rusty rig; Port Jackson fig; Ficus rubiginosa; little-leaf fig.
