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EXOTIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Strikingly strange or unusual
Example:
the exotic landscape of a dead planet
Classified under:
Similar:
strange; unusual (being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird)
Derivation:
exoticness (the quality of being exotic)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
Example:
exotic cuisine
Synonyms:
alien; exotic
Classified under:
Similar:
foreign; strange (relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world)
Derivation:
exoticness (the quality of being exotic)
Context examples:
The experiments determined that the exotic ice in the cloud is a combination of the simple organic molecule hydrogen cyanide together with the large ring-shaped chemical benzene.
(NASA Team Finds Noxious Ice Cloud on Saturn’s Moon Titan, NASA)
NASA scientists have identified an unexpected high-altitude methane ice cloud on Saturn's moon Titan that is similar to exotic clouds found far above Earth's poles.
(NASA Finds Methane Ice Cloud in Titan's Stratosphere, NASA)
Their exotic aesthetic renders cheetah very valuable.
(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)
The thick, warm air of the conservatory and the rich, choking fragrance of exotic plants took us by the throat.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Adding to the oddities of Titan, with its Earth-like features carved by exotic materials, is the fact that the hydrology on one side of the northern hemisphere is completely different than the that of other side.
(Cassini Reveals Surprises with Titan's Lakes, NASA)
You may have taken an important trip overseas or to an exotic island in the last week of December to ring in the New Year, or if not, chances are you will hop a plane very soon, possibly as soon as early January.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Venus will grace your ninth house of long-distance travel, so that’s why I say this would be an ideal month to pack and go to an exotic place—a tropical island or country that would require your passport for entry.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
