Definitions for: Exotic


[adj] strikingly strange or unusual; "exotic costumes from the Far East"; "an exotic hair style"
[adj] being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "moved to a strange country"



Webster (1913) Definition: Ex*ot"ic, a. [L. exoticus, Gr. ? fr. 'e`xw outside: cf.
F. exotique. See Exoteric.]
Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous;
foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.

Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador.
--Evelyn.


Ex*ot"ic, n.
Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth,
as a plant, a word, a custom.

Plants that are unknown to Italy, and such as the
gardeners call exotics. --Addison.

Synonyms: alien, foreign, strange, unusual

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