What does exotic mean?

Definitions for exotic
ɪgˈzɒt ɪkex·ot·ic

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. alien, exoticadjective

    being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world

    "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine"

  2. exoticadjective

    strikingly strange or unusual

    "an exotic hair style"; "protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants"; "the exotic landscape of a dead planet"

Wiktionary

  1. exoticnoun

    An organism that is exotic to an environment.

  2. exoticnoun

    An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.

  3. exoticnoun

    Any exotic particle.

    Glueballs, theoretical particles composed only of gluons, are exotics.

  4. exoticadjective

    Foreign, with the connotation of excitingly foreign.

    exotic appearance

  5. exoticadjective

    Non-native to the ecosystem.

ChatGPT

  1. exotic

    Exotic refers to something that is foreign, non-native, unusual or different from the norm. It often implies an element of intrigue or mysteriousness and can be related to plants, animals, cultures, or places that are not commonly found or experienced in one's local environment or society. It can also describe anything that has characteristics which are strikingly unusual or distinctly unique.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Exoticadjective

    introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word

  2. Exoticnoun

    anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom

  3. Etymology: [L. exoticus, Gr. fr. 'e`xw outside: cf. F. exotique. See Exoteric.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Exotic

    egz-ot′ik, 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. [L.,—Gr. exōtikosexō, outside.]

Entomology

  1. Exotic

    not a natives of the place where found: an introduced species: also any species occurring in any country outside of the limits of the country whose fauna is under consideration.

British National Corpus

  1. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'exotic' in Adjectives Frequency: #949

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of exotic in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of exotic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of exotic in a Sentence

  1. Mark Christmann:

    It’s not something you see every day, especially with exotic meat.

  2. Niall Caldwell:

    What we're trying to do is make a hybrid technology that is very low cost, it's made with conventional materials such as steel, rather than exotic and rare materials such as lithium, which can really be applied globally to make a hybrid system that pays for itself as a business case, without subsidy, and we think that's the key to making all the world's buses hybrids.

  3. Jennifer Bergner:

    When the body is warmed, the water ice restructures to a more stable and compact form, and the trapped gas can escape, this could explain ‘Oumuamua’s behavior but doesn’t need to invoke any exotic chemistry or physics.

  4. Marty Irby:

    Were thrilled to see a light at the end of the tunnel with Chinas proposal to reclassify dogs as companion animals and bring an end to dog meat trade, these animals are our dutiful companions and not our dinner fare. If COVID19 has taught us anything, its that we can not allow infectious practices such as eating bats, dogs, cats, pangolins, and other exotic creatures to continue not only for the welfare of the animals, but for the heath and safety of the human race and global economy. Its believed that the coronavirus pandemic originated from a wet market in Wuhan, China. Marty Irby added that.

  5. James Starrett:

    You don't have to go somewhere exotic, like the Amazon, to find something that hasn't been discovered, with these tools, you can find something not discovered right here in the Northwest.

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