botany bay resin

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botany bay resin - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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     Note: Hence, any place to which desperadoes resort.
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     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 Xanthorrh[ae]a, esp. the grass tree
        (Xanthorrh[ae]a hastilis).
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