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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exotic \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exotic \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
exotic
adj 1: 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" [syn: {alien},
{strange}]
2: strikingly strange or unusual; "exotic costumes from the Far
East"; "an exotic hair style"
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