botanical garden
noun
variants
or less commonly botanic garden
: a garden often with greenhouses for the culture, study, and exhibition of special plants
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Heart Eyes is more likely to go for the joke than for the scare, and the scenes of its glowing-eyed boogieman stalking characters through botanical gardens, police station hallways, and drive-through movie theaters are never spatially coherent enough to build any sense of dread.
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
Visitors can explore the dramatic rock formations of Sabino Canyon or wander through the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, which offers an immersive look at the region’s wildlife, blending a zoo, a botanical garden, and a natural history museum into one.
—Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 4 Feb. 2025
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Unemployed after being replaced by artificial intelligence, Mae subjects herself to experimental surgery to support her family, and to pay for a moment of escape to a botanical garden in a city rife with surveillance and devoid of nature.
—Erika Swyler, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
The Newbury Boston Set in a historic building in Boston’s Back Bay, just a stone’s throw from Boston’s Public Garden (the first public botanical garden in the US), The Newbury Boston underwent an extensive two-year renovation that completely revamped what was formerly the Ritz-Carlton.
—Shivani Vora, Architectural Digest, 13 Dec. 2024
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
Visitors can explore the dramatic rock formations of Sabino Canyon or wander through the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, which offers an immersive look at the region’s wildlife, blending a zoo, a botanical garden, and a natural history museum into one.
—Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 4 Feb. 2025
Buy Now 04 of 10 'Hum' by Helen Philips
Unemployed after being replaced by artificial intelligence, Mae subjects herself to experimental surgery to support her family, and to pay for a moment of escape to a botanical garden in a city rife with surveillance and devoid of nature.
—Erika Swyler, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
The Newbury Boston Set in a historic building in Boston’s Back Bay, just a stone’s throw from Boston’s Public Garden (the first public botanical garden in the US), The Newbury Boston underwent an extensive two-year renovation that completely revamped what was formerly the Ritz-Carlton.
—Shivani Vora, Architectural Digest, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Botanical garden.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/botanical%20garden. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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