botanica
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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This Hawthorne-based small-batch apothecary and botanica creates healing tinctures, candles and oils handmade with locally grown herbs.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2021
Mr. Suárez said that both businesses in his building are open, but the botanica is struggling and behind on the rent.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2020
Conjurers of all kinds would hang out near Astor Place at Weiser Antiquarian, the oldest occult bookstore in America, and they shopped for ingredients for spells at Alberto Rendon’s botanica on 116th Street.
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2017
A customer stops by a botanica seeking the repair of the severed arm of a baby Jesus figurine.
From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2015
She then bowed her head ever so slightly and slowly went back inside her botanica.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
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