Exotic
[ɪg'zɒtɪk;eg-] or [ɪɡ'zɑtɪk]
Definition
(adj.) strikingly strange or unusual; 'an exotic hair style'; 'protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants'; 'the exotic landscape of a dead planet' .
Editor: Nell--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.
(n.) Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.
Checker: Osbert
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Foreign, extraneous, not indigenous, not native.
Checked by Danny
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FOREIGN]
Inputed by Isabella
Definition
adj. introduced from a foreign country—the opposite of indigenous.—n. anything of foreign origin: something not native to a country as a plant a word a custom.—ns. Exot′icism Ex′otism.
Typist: Silvia
Examples
- Many exotic plants have pollen utterly worthless, in the same condition as in the most sterile hybrids. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The thick, warm air of the conservatory and the rich, choking fragrance of exotic plants took us by the throat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But my eye, I'd caught a Sultan that time--' Gudrun's eyes were flashing, her cheek was hot, she looked strange, exotic, satiric. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This room contained, in a profusion almost incredible, every rare exotic root and flower. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Checker: Wendy