Thesaurus: exotic

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1. a. word/introduced">Introduced from a word/foreign">foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.
2. n. word/anything">Anything of word/foreign">foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.
3. adj. being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
4. adj. strikingly strange or unusual
5. word/introduced">Introduced from a word/foreign">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. 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.
6. word/introduced">Introduced from a word/foreign">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.
7. j:97/n:3 s. strikingly strange or unusual