Botany Bay (English, name)
expansion: Botany Bay
Senses:
glosses: A bay of New South Wales, south of Sydney Cove, Australia; the site of a landing by explorer Captain James Cook and later of the First Fleet, and originally planned to be the site of the first penal colony in Australia.
glosses: The penal colony, actually established at Sydney Cove, which developed into the now city of Sydney.
glosses: Worcester College, Oxford.
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
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