Exotic
WordNet
adjective
(1) Strikingly strange or unusual
"An exotic hair style"
"Protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants"
"The exotic landscape of a dead planet"
(2) Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
"Alien customs"
"Exotic plants in a greenhouse"
"Exotic cuisine"
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From exoticus, from "foreign", litteraly "from the outside", from "outside", from "out of".
Adjective
- Foreign, with the connotation of excitingly foreign.
- exotic appearance
- Non-native to the ecosystem.
Noun
- An organism that is exotic to an environment.
- An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.