Meaning of EXOTIC
| Pronunciation: | | ig'zâtik
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | alien, foreign, strange, unusual |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Not native to a given area; either intentionally transplanted from another region or introduced accidentally. |
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