botanica
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- noun
- /bəˈtænɪkə/
- US
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botánica
- At the botanica, you can find various herbal remedies for common ailments.
- botanica store
If anyone remembers mango from garden Botanica, please let me know because that was my high school fragrance.
- If anyone remembers mango from garden Botanica, please let me know because that was my high school fragrance.
Examples
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Some botanica owners suggest mixing it in bathwater or perfume and placing it in devotional candles.
Academic text (1997) -
They are sold in abundance at botanicas in U.S. cities at prices ranging from $65 to over $100.
Academic text (1993) -
There's the Botanica over there on Broad Street.
Blog text (33) -
Then, there's the Island of Salvation Botanica, which is part of the only recently built healing center.
Blog text (33) -
Statues and images of Indian gods are also found in botanicas in major U.S. cities.
Academic text (1999) -
With a last look at the busy street bathed in the setting sun, I follow the clap-clap of her heels into the darkened botanica.
Fiction book (1994) -
They're filled with her collection of healing teas, oils, and candles, which reek of a botanica when they knock against one another.
Fiction book (2002) -
She visited the local botanica to purchase spiritual candles for her home.
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The botanica sells intricate charms and items for healing and protection.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Botanica comes from a word for 'plants' and shares the same root as botany. In Latin American and Caribbean communities it became the name for a shop that sells herbs, charms and plant remedies, so today a botanica is a store for those healing and spiritual items.