Usually means: Historic site, Australian penal colony.
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  1. Botany Bay: Merriam-Webster
  2. Botany Bay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Botany Bay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  14. botany bay: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Botany Bay)

noun:  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.
noun:  The penal colony, actually established at Sydney Cove, which developed into the now city of Sydney.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) Worcester College, Oxford.

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