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单词 botany bay
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Botany Bay


noun

a bay on the SE coast of Australia, near Sydney: site of early British penal colony.

Words nearby Botany Bay

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Example sentences from the Web for Botany Bay

  • At eight A. M. of the 20th, we anchored with the whole of the convoy in Botany-bay, in eight fathoms water.

    An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island|John Hunter
  • They found Colebe near the head of Botany-Bay, where he was striking fish, and ran some risk of being shot.

    An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island|John Hunter

British Dictionary definitions for Botany Bay

Botany Bay

noun

an inlet of the Tasman Sea, on the SE coast of Australia: surrounded by the suburbs of Sydney
(in the 19th century) a British penal settlement that was in fact at Port Jackson, New South Wales
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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