apothecary
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Instead of shelves of alcohol, apothecary drawers stocked with ingredients like goji berries and angelica root line the walls, permeating the room with their scent.
From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026
No-nonsense Maomao, a Tang Dynasty-era girl raised in a brothel who escapes servitude to parlay her apothecary skills in service of the palace, is one of the best female protagonists of all time.
From Salon • Dec. 19, 2025
A few minutes later, I walked up the street to an herbal apothecary that offers rose quartz crystals alongside dropper-bottle tinctures labeled “Happiness.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2024
Paleontologists first discovered Gigantopithecus in the mid-1930s in a Hong Kong apothecary where the ape’s unusually large molars were being hawked as “dragon teeth.”
From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2024
He’d graduated with honors, had come to Salem and studied medicine; then he had decided to open his apothecary shop.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
Vocabulary lists containing apothecary
The Hunger Games
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act V
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