Exotic

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  • adjective. From another part of the world; foreign: synonym: foreign.
  • adjective. Intriguingly unusual or different; excitingly strange: synonym: fantastic.
  • adjective. Of or involving striptease.
  • noun. One that is exotic.
  • noun. A striptease performer.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of foreign origin or character; introduced from a foreign country; not native, naturalized, or familiarized; extraneous: as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.
  • noun. Anything of foreign origin, as a plant, tree, word, practice, etc., introduced from a foreign country, and not fully acclimated, naturalized, or established in use.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign
  • noun. Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Foreign, with the connotation of excitingly foreign.
  • adjective. Non-native to the ecosystem.
  • noun. An organism that is exotic to an environment.
  • noun. An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
  • noun. Any exotic particle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. strikingly strange or unusual
  • adjective. being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
  • Word Usage
    "Not to be outdone, the New York City cast took the term exotic getaway to a whole new level with a Morocco trip spanning three episodes."
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    foreign  strange  unusual  
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