Word Meanings - BOTANYBAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Note: Hence, any place to which desperadoes resort. 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 Xanthorrhæa, esp. the grass three (X. hastilis.)

• Harborough
  Alt. of Harbrough
• Three-parted
  Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite.
• Callosan
  Of the callosum.
• Numberless
  Innumerable; countless.
• Yellow
  Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green.
• Coastways
  By way of, or along, the coast.
• Placentary
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• Yellows
  A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice.
• Colormen
  of Colorman
• Productus
  An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
• COLORADOGROUP
  A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.
• Convicting
  of Convict
• Resino-electric
  Containing or exhibiting resinous electricity.
• THREECORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem.
• English
  Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.
• Severalty
  A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right.
• THREETORQUESYSTEMOFCONTROL
  Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.
• Foundationless
  Having no foundation.
• Thereat
  At that place; there.
• Grassation
  A wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting.

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