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Botany Bay
[So called by Captain Cook on account of the great variety of plants collected there by the botanist who accompanied him.]
Proper name of a place in New South Wales, formerly a convict settlement; hence proverbially used in sense of ‘transportation’; also fig.
1812Examiner 19 Oct. 666/1 The famished wretch..is sent to the whipping-post or to Botany Bay. 1821Byron Juan iii. xciv, Such names at present cut a convict figure, The very Botany Bay in moral geography. 1841Marryat Poacher vi, They are..sent off to Botany Bay. |