exotic

exotic
    adj 1: being or from or characteristic of another place or part
           of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a
           greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine" [syn: {alien}, {exotic}]
    2: strikingly strange or unusual; "an exotic hair style";
       "protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants";
       "the exotic landscape of a dead planet"
    

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.
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         Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador.
                                                  --Evelyn.
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Exotic \Ex*ot"ic\, n.
   Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth,
   as a plant, a word, a custom.
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         Plants that are unknown to Italy, and such as the
         gardeners call exotics.                  --Addison.
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145 Moby Thesaurus words for "exotic":
      alien, alluring, apart, appealing, appetizing, asunder,
      at a distance, attractive, away, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous,
      beguiling, belly, bewitching, bizarre, blandishing, bottomless,
      bright, bright-hued, brilliant, burning, cajoling, captivating,
      catching, charismatic, charming, coaxing, colorful, colory,
      come-hither, coquettish, crazy, deep-colored, detached, different,
      disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disrelated, dissociated, distal,
      distant, enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing,
      entrancing, exciting, exterior, external, extraneous,
      extraordinary, extraterrestrial, extrinsic, far, far off, faraway,
      fascinating, fetching, flirtatious, foreign, foreign-born, gay,
      gay-colored, glamorous, go-go, gorgeous, high-colored, hypnotic,
      imported, incommensurable, incomparable, independent, insular,
      intense, interesting, intriguing, intrusive, inviting, irrelative,
      irresistible, isolated, long-distance, long-range, mesmeric,
      mouth-watering, mysterious, naturalized, nude, odd, other, outland,
      outlandish, outside, peculiar, piquant, prepossessing, provocative,
      provoquant, ravishing, remarkable, remote, removed, rich,
      rich-colored, romanesque, romantic, seducing, seductive, segregate,
      separate, separated, singular, siren, sirenic, spellbinding,
      spellful, strange, striptease, taking, tantalizing, teasing,
      tempting, tickling, titillating, titillative, topless, ulterior,
      unaffiliated, unallied, unassociated, unconnected, unearthly,
      unfamiliar, unique, unrelatable, unrelated, unusual, vivid, weird,
      winning, winsome, witching