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exotic adjective [ ɪɡˈzɒtɪk ]

• originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country.
• "exotic birds"
Similar: foreign, non-native, tropical, alien, imported, introduced, unnaturalized, faraway, far off, far-flung, unfamiliar, distant, remote,
Opposite: native, familiar, nearby,

exotic noun

• an exotic plant or animal.
• "he planted exotics in the sheltered garden"
Origin: late 16th century: via Latin from Greek exōtikos ‘foreign’, from exō ‘outside’.


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