strikingly strange or unusual; "an exotic hair style"; "protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants"; "the exotic landscape of a dead planet"
being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine"
Something that is exotic is unusual and interesting, usually because it comes from or is related to a distant country. brilliantly coloured, exotic flowers She flits from one exotic location to another. + exotically ex·oti·cal·ly exotically beautiful scenery. something that is exotic seems unusual and interesting because it is related to a foreign country - use this to show approval (exoticus, from exotikos, from exo )
Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom
refers to an organism from another zoogeographic region; usually applied to species from another country or continent