Definition of exotic in English:

exotic

adjective ɛɡˈzɒtɪkɪɡˈzɒtɪkɪɡˈzɑdɪk

1Originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country.
外（国）来的，（从国外）引进的；具有异国情调的
exotic birds
外来鸟。
they loved to visit exotic places
他们喜欢参观具有异国风情的地方。
Example sentencesExamples
- He's never been one for exotic foreign holidays.
- Somewhere in the distance an exotic bird gave off a trilling call that sounded both mournful and sweet.
- Historically, anthropologists have used ethnography to gain perspective on foreign, exotic cultures.
- There were exotic meals, foreign names of the dishes, and plenty more desserts.
- One of the great joys of watching films for a living is the opportunity some of them afford for glimpses of distant, exotic countries.
- Thailand is seen as an exotic holiday by foreign tourists, for beautiful beaches, sun and sea, wonderful culture and smiling people.
- Despite the glaring exposure, the big corporate fish, especially the exotic, foreign variety, have evaded capture.
- Foreigners are considered exotic to some extent by the locals pretty much anywhere I've been, and Canada is no exception.
- There were exotic foods from distant lands, unique carpentry from other countries, and strange odors that brought excitement to the nose.
- The East through Western eyes has throughout history been seen as the ultimate symbol of foreignness, the most exotic of lands and people.
- Software is at the mercy of users in distant lands with exotic laws and a disregarded and disrespected legal system.
- The other possessed an exotic beauty and a foreign look with high cheek bones and vivid green eyes.
- Most of them have their eyes set on sunnier and more exotic, distant resorts when they plan their holidays.
- For many Europeans, the description of an American summer camp seems foreign and slightly exotic.
- In exchange, they brought silks from China and exotic goods from distant Europe.
- Twenty-five years ago, it was the equivalent of the Internet; a means of access to worldwide information resources and exotic foreign cultures.
- Unlike the first time, when traveling to Cuba was something of an exotic journey to a foreign land, my return was more akin to a homecoming.
- In these narratives across different times and places, the reader seems to be both traveling through the tunnel of time and having an exotic experience in a foreign land.
- The exotic creature, which originates from Central and South America, is probably an escaped pet.
- A serial conman who swindled victims out of more than £1million told a judge that he blew £64,000 on exotic foreign holidays.
Synonyms
foreign, non-native, tropical
alien, imported, introduced, unnaturalized
foreign, faraway, far off, far-flung, unfamiliar
distant, remote
1. 1.1 Attractive or striking because colourful or out of the ordinary.
  （因亮丽或奇特而）引人注目的，吸引人的
  youths with exotic haircuts
  there was a touch of the exotic in her appearance
  她的相貌有一点儿魅力。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Some of the most exotic devices have attracted serious interest in military circles.
  The colour combination gives an exotic appearance, setting this daffodil apart from others.
  His stories perfectly capture that fascination with exotic names and improbable colours and, best of all, the thrill of making a wise spending choice.
  It's not easy to see just what determines which accents will seem disgusting to someone, and which will seem merely exotic or even attractive.
  Also noteworthy is the creative matching of gold with a variety of stones and materials in exotic colours.
  I plunge into the old town, an effervescent mixture of colourful sights and exotic smells.
  Start off with any old mixed packet, till you get the hang of it, before going on to the more exotic single coloured varieties.
  With the trend being high shine, anything that glows bright jewellery, bright colours, exotic florals, metallic stripes, bold prints, gleams and shimmers will keep you in vogue.
  An ordinary paintbrush can create exotic, even outlandish designs with acrylic paint.
  They add a dash of exotic colour to what was once a place of busy docks and warehouses, most of which now lie in decay.
  Some houseplant leaves look wonderful for this as they are glossy or have exotic markings or colouration.
  For autumn/winter 99 she offers a colourful vision of exotic extravagance.
  It was a small frog, made of blown glass beads, and decorated in exotic gold paints and garnished in rich, lovely colored fabrics.
  The vessel had very exotic colours which contrasted with the dull blacknesss of space.
  Even the eighteenth century British art is looking strikingly exotic.
  It features a quite attractive, somewhat exotic main theme that immediately catches the ear.
  They had long been seen as a colourful, slightly exotic bunch.
  Visually, Act II works best in its exotic use of colour and lighting.
  She had always been attracted to the exotic, the different, and the unique.
  It's not just that pelts and plumes are exotic, strikingly patterned or richly textured.
  Synonyms
  striking, colourful, eye-catching
  unusual, unconventional, out of the ordinary, extravagant, off-centre, remarkable, sensational, astonishing, strange, outlandish, bizarre, fantastic, peculiar, weird, outrageous, curious, different, unfamiliar
  Bohemian, alternative, avant-garde, foreign-looking
  attractive, glamorous, romantic, fascinating
  British out of the common
  informal offbeat, off the wall
2. 1.2 (especially of metals or fuels) of a kind not ordinarily encountered; specially produced.
  exotic chemicals such as oil hydrocarbons
  Example sentencesExamples
  It would eliminate many of the exotic chemicals and processes now used to make chips.
  Despite this careful redefinition of the velocity of a wave, there are, in fact, still exotic situations where the group velocity can exceed c.
  However, anti-matter is an exotic form of matter which is extremely expensive to produce.
  The engines of tomorrow's PCs may be based not on silicon dioxide but on exotic new compounds such as perovskite oxide or even the stuff of life itself, DNA.
  Unfortunately, my wife does not share my enthusiasm for the aroma of burnt rubber and exotic fuels.
  Keep in mind that you're not talking about exotic fuels per se.
  A crypto-exotic, by contrast, is a hadron that does not have an exotic quantum number, but does not have a meson or baryon body plan either.
  What you don't get in one of these knives is exotic steel with a tip-of-the-tongue collector name.
  Tea needs relatively more sunlight than coffee and the exotic silver oak has been the tree of choice to provide the scant shade that the plants need.
  Some of the proposals include exotic electronic states that have not yet been observed in any system.
  Pulsars and quasars may turn out to be commonplace in comparison to the exotic astrophysical events that gravity wave astronomy reveals.
  Some installers are adding broken glass, bits of metal, and other exotic materials to the mix, and diamond polishing afterwards.
  You say you got a 94% conversion with that exotic chiral zinc reagent?
  Something with pressure comparable to its energy density is exotic.
  Supersymmetric theories are good places to look for exotic matter in the form of fermionic superpartners of bosonic particles that carry forces.
  Even airplanes, RC cars, and chainsaws have experienced power boosts from some of VPs exotic fuels.
  Many physicists assumed that a more exotic underlying mechanism was responsible for superconductivity in magnesium diboride.
  Physicists have coaxed a few atoms into exotic states that fit the bill, but they didn't make much of a computer.
  But there are potentially more exotic applications over the horizon: quantum computers.
  As this discussion makes clear, the issue of exotic hadrons exposes profound weaknesses in our current understanding of the strong interaction.

noun ɛɡˈzɒtɪkɪɡˈzɒtɪkɪɡˈzɑdɪk

An exotic plant or animal.
引进的植物（或动物）外国种
he planted exotics in the sheltered garden
他在不受风雨侵袭的花园里种了引进植物。
Example sentencesExamples
- In the past exotics were mostly planted, mainly because they were easier to prune, and their root systems didn't interfere with the underground service pipes.
- Gooseberries and apples, in fact, figure just as largely in the early Transactions of the Royal Horticultural Society as new exotics like dahlias and chrysanths.
- You don't have to be a Shakespeare scholar to know that the Prince of Denmark is not contemplating a castle grounds filled with invasive exotics when he utters these lines.
- Exotics such as cotton palms and African mahoganies which are favoured by the turtle and Barbary doves, should be avoided.
- There is a wide range of trees and shrubs, exotics and natives, and even in winter there is some colour.
- But once the oaks die, grasses and exotics, like Scotch broom, will seed in aggressively, provoking a hotter flame.
- This could refer to any of the passerines, though most likely a canary or similar caged exotic.
- And of course, all those wonderful exotics planted in Joubert Park are still there, thriving since they were planted over 100 years ago.
- Yet the shorthair influence, though remote, is difficult to remove, and even now few people breed one exotic to another more than once every two or three generations.
- A mixture of natives and exotics has been planted closely with a view to thinning later.
- This could be an especially harmful exotic because its venomous spines are dangerous to humans and other fish.
- In Hawaii today, as in Australia, many exotics are aggressive and pushing out the indigenous plants.
- Native plants are preferable, but many enthusiasts swear by exotics such as single varieties of fuchsia, as well as lantana and red-hot poker.
- Although he relies heavily on native plants, he keeps his mind and garden open to exotics, as long as they are appropriate for his Zone 8 garden.
- Encouraging people to use host plants in their gardens is one way to move away from exotics and invasive plants which can be damaging to the wider environment.
- There was no mention made of the fact that the beaver is a native North American species whereas the cherry trees are exotics, imported from Japan.
- As in Hawaii, one of the most invasive and damaging exotics is the guava plant, which covers more than 12% of the farm area of the biggest island in the group.
- An important feature of the site is the lack of invasive non-native exotics like rhododendron and laurel.
- It is important to remember that many exotics have ‘gotten loose’ in southern landscapes and actually choked out native species in their own habitat.
- ‘I didn't want to get into battle with the deer,’ she says, so she made sure to avoid exotics that deer find tasty.

Derivatives

exotically

adverbɪɡˈzɒtɪk(ə)liɛɡˈzɒtɪk(ə)liɪɡˈzɑdək(ə)li

Universally acclaimed as one of the most exotically beautiful buildings in the British Isles, the Royal Pavilion is the magnificent former seaside residence of King George IV.
Example sentencesExamples
- The side dishes were palatable: a mound of exotically spiced couscous with plump raisins and a ratatouille of herbs and vegetables simmered in their own juices.
- The bar staff are undeniably attractive and exotically clothed and even if service is not always with a smile, there are worse backdrops to drink against.
- We were now traversing a great garden of corals, of which the Barrier Reef has 350 different hard varieties and about 60 soft, many of them exotically coloured.
- The various exotically named fruit and milk cocktails have found favour with the college going crowd.

Origin

Late 16th century: via Latin from Greek exōtikos 'foreign', from exō 'outside'.

English exotic is from Greek exōtikos ‘foreign’, from exō ‘outside’. The notion of ‘foreign origin’ gave the word a dimension of glamour, hence phrases such as exotic dancer, first introduced in the USA, for a stripper.

Rhymes

abiotic, amniotic, antibiotic, chaotic, demotic, despotic, erotic, homoerotic, hypnotic, idiotic, macrobiotic, meiotic, narcotic, neurotic, osmotic, patriotic, prebiotic, psychotic, quixotic, robotic, sclerotic, semiotic, symbiotic, zygotic, zymotic

Definition of exotic in US English:

exotic

adjectiveɪɡˈzɑdɪkiɡˈzädik

1Originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country.
外（国）来的，（从国外）引进的；具有异国情调的
exotic birds
外来鸟。
they loved to visit exotic places
他们喜欢参观具有异国风情的地方。
Example sentencesExamples
- He's never been one for exotic foreign holidays.
- Foreigners are considered exotic to some extent by the locals pretty much anywhere I've been, and Canada is no exception.
- In exchange, they brought silks from China and exotic goods from distant Europe.
- Historically, anthropologists have used ethnography to gain perspective on foreign, exotic cultures.
- Somewhere in the distance an exotic bird gave off a trilling call that sounded both mournful and sweet.
- Unlike the first time, when traveling to Cuba was something of an exotic journey to a foreign land, my return was more akin to a homecoming.
- The other possessed an exotic beauty and a foreign look with high cheek bones and vivid green eyes.
- Despite the glaring exposure, the big corporate fish, especially the exotic, foreign variety, have evaded capture.
- The exotic creature, which originates from Central and South America, is probably an escaped pet.
- The East through Western eyes has throughout history been seen as the ultimate symbol of foreignness, the most exotic of lands and people.
- In these narratives across different times and places, the reader seems to be both traveling through the tunnel of time and having an exotic experience in a foreign land.
- For many Europeans, the description of an American summer camp seems foreign and slightly exotic.
- One of the great joys of watching films for a living is the opportunity some of them afford for glimpses of distant, exotic countries.
- Twenty-five years ago, it was the equivalent of the Internet; a means of access to worldwide information resources and exotic foreign cultures.
- There were exotic foods from distant lands, unique carpentry from other countries, and strange odors that brought excitement to the nose.
- Software is at the mercy of users in distant lands with exotic laws and a disregarded and disrespected legal system.
- There were exotic meals, foreign names of the dishes, and plenty more desserts.
- Thailand is seen as an exotic holiday by foreign tourists, for beautiful beaches, sun and sea, wonderful culture and smiling people.
- A serial conman who swindled victims out of more than £1million told a judge that he blew £64,000 on exotic foreign holidays.
- Most of them have their eyes set on sunnier and more exotic, distant resorts when they plan their holidays.
Synonyms
foreign, non-native, tropical
foreign, faraway, far off, far-flung, unfamiliar
1. 1.1 Attractive or striking because colorful or out of the ordinary.
  （因亮丽或奇特而）引人注目的，吸引人的
  there was a touch of the exotic in her appearance
  她的相貌有一点儿魅力。
  an exotic outfit
  惹人注意的服装。
  Example sentencesExamples
  With the trend being high shine, anything that glows bright jewellery, bright colours, exotic florals, metallic stripes, bold prints, gleams and shimmers will keep you in vogue.
  For autumn/winter 99 she offers a colourful vision of exotic extravagance.
  The colour combination gives an exotic appearance, setting this daffodil apart from others.
  It features a quite attractive, somewhat exotic main theme that immediately catches the ear.
  Even the eighteenth century British art is looking strikingly exotic.
  It was a small frog, made of blown glass beads, and decorated in exotic gold paints and garnished in rich, lovely colored fabrics.
  Start off with any old mixed packet, till you get the hang of it, before going on to the more exotic single coloured varieties.
  It's not easy to see just what determines which accents will seem disgusting to someone, and which will seem merely exotic or even attractive.
  Some houseplant leaves look wonderful for this as they are glossy or have exotic markings or colouration.
  She had always been attracted to the exotic, the different, and the unique.
  Also noteworthy is the creative matching of gold with a variety of stones and materials in exotic colours.
  His stories perfectly capture that fascination with exotic names and improbable colours and, best of all, the thrill of making a wise spending choice.
  It's not just that pelts and plumes are exotic, strikingly patterned or richly textured.
  I plunge into the old town, an effervescent mixture of colourful sights and exotic smells.
  They add a dash of exotic colour to what was once a place of busy docks and warehouses, most of which now lie in decay.
  They had long been seen as a colourful, slightly exotic bunch.
  Visually, Act II works best in its exotic use of colour and lighting.
  Some of the most exotic devices have attracted serious interest in military circles.
  An ordinary paintbrush can create exotic, even outlandish designs with acrylic paint.
  The vessel had very exotic colours which contrasted with the dull blacknesss of space.
  Synonyms
  striking, colourful, eye-catching
2. 1.2 Of a kind not used for ordinary purposes or not ordinarily encountered.
  异类的，奇特的
  exotic elementary particles as yet unknown to science
  科学界还不了解的基本异粒子。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Pulsars and quasars may turn out to be commonplace in comparison to the exotic astrophysical events that gravity wave astronomy reveals.
  A crypto-exotic, by contrast, is a hadron that does not have an exotic quantum number, but does not have a meson or baryon body plan either.
  But there are potentially more exotic applications over the horizon: quantum computers.
  Keep in mind that you're not talking about exotic fuels per se.
  Despite this careful redefinition of the velocity of a wave, there are, in fact, still exotic situations where the group velocity can exceed c.
  You say you got a 94% conversion with that exotic chiral zinc reagent?
  Some of the proposals include exotic electronic states that have not yet been observed in any system.
  Tea needs relatively more sunlight than coffee and the exotic silver oak has been the tree of choice to provide the scant shade that the plants need.
  Physicists have coaxed a few atoms into exotic states that fit the bill, but they didn't make much of a computer.
  However, anti-matter is an exotic form of matter which is extremely expensive to produce.
  The engines of tomorrow's PCs may be based not on silicon dioxide but on exotic new compounds such as perovskite oxide or even the stuff of life itself, DNA.
  Something with pressure comparable to its energy density is exotic.
  Unfortunately, my wife does not share my enthusiasm for the aroma of burnt rubber and exotic fuels.
  Even airplanes, RC cars, and chainsaws have experienced power boosts from some of VPs exotic fuels.
  Many physicists assumed that a more exotic underlying mechanism was responsible for superconductivity in magnesium diboride.
  As this discussion makes clear, the issue of exotic hadrons exposes profound weaknesses in our current understanding of the strong interaction.
  It would eliminate many of the exotic chemicals and processes now used to make chips.
  What you don't get in one of these knives is exotic steel with a tip-of-the-tongue collector name.
  Supersymmetric theories are good places to look for exotic matter in the form of fermionic superpartners of bosonic particles that carry forces.
  Some installers are adding broken glass, bits of metal, and other exotic materials to the mix, and diamond polishing afterwards.

nounɪɡˈzɑdɪkiɡˈzädik

An exotic plant or animal.
引进的植物（或动物）外国种
he planted exotics in the sheltered garden
他在不受风雨侵袭的花园里种了引进植物。
Example sentencesExamples
- You don't have to be a Shakespeare scholar to know that the Prince of Denmark is not contemplating a castle grounds filled with invasive exotics when he utters these lines.
- It is important to remember that many exotics have ‘gotten loose’ in southern landscapes and actually choked out native species in their own habitat.
- This could be an especially harmful exotic because its venomous spines are dangerous to humans and other fish.
- ‘I didn't want to get into battle with the deer,’ she says, so she made sure to avoid exotics that deer find tasty.
- In Hawaii today, as in Australia, many exotics are aggressive and pushing out the indigenous plants.
- In the past exotics were mostly planted, mainly because they were easier to prune, and their root systems didn't interfere with the underground service pipes.
- Exotics such as cotton palms and African mahoganies which are favoured by the turtle and Barbary doves, should be avoided.
- This could refer to any of the passerines, though most likely a canary or similar caged exotic.
- Gooseberries and apples, in fact, figure just as largely in the early Transactions of the Royal Horticultural Society as new exotics like dahlias and chrysanths.
- There is a wide range of trees and shrubs, exotics and natives, and even in winter there is some colour.
- A mixture of natives and exotics has been planted closely with a view to thinning later.
- But once the oaks die, grasses and exotics, like Scotch broom, will seed in aggressively, provoking a hotter flame.
- Native plants are preferable, but many enthusiasts swear by exotics such as single varieties of fuchsia, as well as lantana and red-hot poker.
- Encouraging people to use host plants in their gardens is one way to move away from exotics and invasive plants which can be damaging to the wider environment.
- There was no mention made of the fact that the beaver is a native North American species whereas the cherry trees are exotics, imported from Japan.
- Yet the shorthair influence, though remote, is difficult to remove, and even now few people breed one exotic to another more than once every two or three generations.
- An important feature of the site is the lack of invasive non-native exotics like rhododendron and laurel.
- And of course, all those wonderful exotics planted in Joubert Park are still there, thriving since they were planted over 100 years ago.
- Although he relies heavily on native plants, he keeps his mind and garden open to exotics, as long as they are appropriate for his Zone 8 garden.
- As in Hawaii, one of the most invasive and damaging exotics is the guava plant, which covers more than 12% of the farm area of the biggest island in the group.

Origin

Late 16th century: via Latin from Greek exōtikos ‘foreign’, from exō ‘outside’.

单词	exotic
释义	Definition of exotic in English: exotic adjective ɛɡˈzɒtɪkɪɡˈzɒtɪkɪɡˈzɑdɪk 1Originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country. 外（国）来的，（从国外）引进的；具有异国情调的 exotic birds 外来鸟。 they loved to visit exotic places 他们喜欢参观具有异国风情的地方。 Example sentencesExamples He's never been one for exotic foreign holidays. Somewhere in the distance an exotic bird gave off a trilling call that sounded both mournful and sweet. Historically, anthropologists have used ethnography to gain perspective on foreign, exotic cultures. There were exotic meals, foreign names of the dishes, and plenty more desserts. One of the great joys of watching films for a living is the opportunity some of them afford for glimpses of distant, exotic countries. Thailand is seen as an exotic holiday by foreign tourists, for beautiful beaches, sun and sea, wonderful culture and smiling people. Despite the glaring exposure, the big corporate fish, especially the exotic, foreign variety, have evaded capture. Foreigners are considered exotic to some extent by the locals pretty much anywhere I've been, and Canada is no exception. There were exotic foods from distant lands, unique carpentry from other countries, and strange odors that brought excitement to the nose. The East through Western eyes has throughout history been seen as the ultimate symbol of foreignness, the most exotic of lands and people. Software is at the mercy of users in distant lands with exotic laws and a disregarded and disrespected legal system. The other possessed an exotic beauty and a foreign look with high cheek bones and vivid green eyes. Most of them have their eyes set on sunnier and more exotic, distant resorts when they plan their holidays. For many Europeans, the description of an American summer camp seems foreign and slightly exotic. In exchange, they brought silks from China and exotic goods from distant Europe. Twenty-five years ago, it was the equivalent of the Internet; a means of access to worldwide information resources and exotic foreign cultures. Unlike the first time, when traveling to Cuba was something of an exotic journey to a foreign land, my return was more akin to a homecoming. In these narratives across different times and places, the reader seems to be both traveling through the tunnel of time and having an exotic experience in a foreign land. The exotic creature, which originates from Central and South America, is probably an escaped pet. A serial conman who swindled victims out of more than £1million told a judge that he blew £64,000 on exotic foreign holidays. Synonyms foreign, non-native, tropical alien, imported, introduced, unnaturalized foreign, faraway, far off, far-flung, unfamiliar distant, remote 1.1 Attractive or striking because colourful or out of the ordinary. （因亮丽或奇特而）引人注目的，吸引人的 youths with exotic haircuts there was a touch of the exotic in her appearance 她的相貌有一点儿魅力。 Example sentencesExamples Some of the most exotic devices have attracted serious interest in military circles. The colour combination gives an exotic appearance, setting this daffodil apart from others. His stories perfectly capture that fascination with exotic names and improbable colours and, best of all, the thrill of making a wise spending choice. It's not easy to see just what determines which accents will seem disgusting to someone, and which will seem merely exotic or even attractive. Also noteworthy is the creative matching of gold with a variety of stones and materials in exotic colours. I plunge into the old town, an effervescent mixture of colourful sights and exotic smells. Start off with any old mixed packet, till you get the hang of it, before going on to the more exotic single coloured varieties. With the trend being high shine, anything that glows bright jewellery, bright colours, exotic florals, metallic stripes, bold prints, gleams and shimmers will keep you in vogue. An ordinary paintbrush can create exotic, even outlandish designs with acrylic paint. They add a dash of exotic colour to what was once a place of busy docks and warehouses, most of which now lie in decay. Some houseplant leaves look wonderful for this as they are glossy or have exotic markings or colouration. For autumn/winter 99 she offers a colourful vision of exotic extravagance. It was a small frog, made of blown glass beads, and decorated in exotic gold paints and garnished in rich, lovely colored fabrics. The vessel had very exotic colours which contrasted with the dull blacknesss of space. Even the eighteenth century British art is looking strikingly exotic. It features a quite attractive, somewhat exotic main theme that immediately catches the ear. They had long been seen as a colourful, slightly exotic bunch. Visually, Act II works best in its exotic use of colour and lighting. She had always been attracted to the exotic, the different, and the unique. It's not just that pelts and plumes are exotic, strikingly patterned or richly textured. Synonyms striking, colourful, eye-catching unusual, unconventional, out of the ordinary, extravagant, off-centre, remarkable, sensational, astonishing, strange, outlandish, bizarre, fantastic, peculiar, weird, outrageous, curious, different, unfamiliar Bohemian, alternative, avant-garde, foreign-looking attractive, glamorous, romantic, fascinating British out of the common informal offbeat, off the wall 1.2 (especially of metals or fuels) of a kind not ordinarily encountered; specially produced. exotic chemicals such as oil hydrocarbons Example sentencesExamples It would eliminate many of the exotic chemicals and processes now used to make chips. Despite this careful redefinition of the velocity of a wave, there are, in fact, still exotic situations where the group velocity can exceed c. However, anti-matter is an exotic form of matter which is extremely expensive to produce. The engines of tomorrow's PCs may be based not on silicon dioxide but on exotic new compounds such as perovskite oxide or even the stuff of life itself, DNA. Unfortunately, my wife does not share my enthusiasm for the aroma of burnt rubber and exotic fuels. Keep in mind that you're not talking about exotic fuels per se. A crypto-exotic, by contrast, is a hadron that does not have an exotic quantum number, but does not have a meson or baryon body plan either. What you don't get in one of these knives is exotic steel with a tip-of-the-tongue collector name. Tea needs relatively more sunlight than coffee and the exotic silver oak has been the tree of choice to provide the scant shade that the plants need. Some of the proposals include exotic electronic states that have not yet been observed in any system. Pulsars and quasars may turn out to be commonplace in comparison to the exotic astrophysical events that gravity wave astronomy reveals. Some installers are adding broken glass, bits of metal, and other exotic materials to the mix, and diamond polishing afterwards. You say you got a 94% conversion with that exotic chiral zinc reagent? Something with pressure comparable to its energy density is exotic. Supersymmetric theories are good places to look for exotic matter in the form of fermionic superpartners of bosonic particles that carry forces. Even airplanes, RC cars, and chainsaws have experienced power boosts from some of VPs exotic fuels. Many physicists assumed that a more exotic underlying mechanism was responsible for superconductivity in magnesium diboride. Physicists have coaxed a few atoms into exotic states that fit the bill, but they didn't make much of a computer. But there are potentially more exotic applications over the horizon: quantum computers. As this discussion makes clear, the issue of exotic hadrons exposes profound weaknesses in our current understanding of the strong interaction. noun ɛɡˈzɒtɪkɪɡˈzɒtɪkɪɡˈzɑdɪk An exotic plant or animal. 引进的植物（或动物）外国种 he planted exotics in the sheltered garden 他在不受风雨侵袭的花园里种了引进植物。 Example sentencesExamples In the past exotics were mostly planted, mainly because they were easier to prune, and their root systems didn't interfere with the underground service pipes. Gooseberries and apples, in fact, figure just as largely in the early Transactions of the Royal Horticultural Society as new exotics like dahlias and chrysanths. You don't have to be a Shakespeare scholar to know that the Prince of Denmark is not contemplating a castle grounds filled with invasive exotics when he utters these lines. Exotics such as cotton palms and African mahoganies which are favoured by the turtle and Barbary doves, should be avoided. There is a wide range of trees and shrubs, exotics and natives, and even in winter there is some colour. But once the oaks die, grasses and exotics, like Scotch broom, will seed in aggressively, provoking a hotter flame. This could refer to any of the passerines, though most likely a canary or similar caged exotic. And of course, all those wonderful exotics planted in Joubert Park are still there, thriving since they were planted over 100 years ago. Yet the shorthair influence, though remote, is difficult to remove, and even now few people breed one exotic to another more than once every two or three generations. A mixture of natives and exotics has been planted closely with a view to thinning later. This could be an especially harmful exotic because its venomous spines are dangerous to humans and other fish. In Hawaii today, as in Australia, many exotics are aggressive and pushing out the indigenous plants. Native plants are preferable, but many enthusiasts swear by exotics such as single varieties of fuchsia, as well as lantana and red-hot poker. Although he relies heavily on native plants, he keeps his mind and garden open to exotics, as long as they are appropriate for his Zone 8 garden. Encouraging people to use host plants in their gardens is one way to move away from exotics and invasive plants which can be damaging to the wider environment. There was no mention made of the fact that the beaver is a native North American species whereas the cherry trees are exotics, imported from Japan. As in Hawaii, one of the most invasive and damaging exotics is the guava plant, which covers more than 12% of the farm area of the biggest island in the group. An important feature of the site is the lack of invasive non-native exotics like rhododendron and laurel. It is important to remember that many exotics have ‘gotten loose’ in southern landscapes and actually choked out native species in their own habitat. ‘I didn't want to get into battle with the deer,’ she says, so she made sure to avoid exotics that deer find tasty. Derivatives exotically adverbɪɡˈzɒtɪk(ə)liɛɡˈzɒtɪk(ə)liɪɡˈzɑdək(ə)li Universally acclaimed as one of the most exotically beautiful buildings in the British Isles, the Royal Pavilion is the magnificent former seaside residence of King George IV. Example sentencesExamples The side dishes were palatable: a mound of exotically spiced couscous with plump raisins and a ratatouille of herbs and vegetables simmered in their own juices. The bar staff are undeniably attractive and exotically clothed and even if service is not always with a smile, there are worse backdrops to drink against. We were now traversing a great garden of corals, of which the Barrier Reef has 350 different hard varieties and about 60 soft, many of them exotically coloured. The various exotically named fruit and milk cocktails have found favour with the college going crowd. Origin Late 16th century: via Latin from Greek exōtikos 'foreign', from exō 'outside'. English exotic is from Greek exōtikos ‘foreign’, from exō ‘outside’. The notion of ‘foreign origin’ gave the word a dimension of glamour, hence phrases such as exotic dancer, first introduced in the USA, for a stripper. Rhymes abiotic, amniotic, antibiotic, chaotic, demotic, despotic, erotic, homoerotic, hypnotic, idiotic, macrobiotic, meiotic, narcotic, neurotic, osmotic, patriotic, prebiotic, psychotic, quixotic, robotic, sclerotic, semiotic, symbiotic, zygotic, zymotic Definition of exotic in US English: exotic adjectiveɪɡˈzɑdɪkiɡˈzädik 1Originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country. 外（国）来的，（从国外）引进的；具有异国情调的 exotic birds 外来鸟。 they loved to visit exotic places 他们喜欢参观具有异国风情的地方。 Example sentencesExamples He's never been one for exotic foreign holidays. Foreigners are considered exotic to some extent by the locals pretty much anywhere I've been, and Canada is no exception. In exchange, they brought silks from China and exotic goods from distant Europe. Historically, anthropologists have used ethnography to gain perspective on foreign, exotic cultures. Somewhere in the distance an exotic bird gave off a trilling call that sounded both mournful and sweet. Unlike the first time, when traveling to Cuba was something of an exotic journey to a foreign land, my return was more akin to a homecoming. The other possessed an exotic beauty and a foreign look with high cheek bones and vivid green eyes. Despite the glaring exposure, the big corporate fish, especially the exotic, foreign variety, have evaded capture. The exotic creature, which originates from Central and South America, is probably an escaped pet. The East through Western eyes has throughout history been seen as the ultimate symbol of foreignness, the most exotic of lands and people. In these narratives across different times and places, the reader seems to be both traveling through the tunnel of time and having an exotic experience in a foreign land. For many Europeans, the description of an American summer camp seems foreign and slightly exotic. One of the great joys of watching films for a living is the opportunity some of them afford for glimpses of distant, exotic countries. Twenty-five years ago, it was the equivalent of the Internet; a means of access to worldwide information resources and exotic foreign cultures. There were exotic foods from distant lands, unique carpentry from other countries, and strange odors that brought excitement to the nose. Software is at the mercy of users in distant lands with exotic laws and a disregarded and disrespected legal system. There were exotic meals, foreign names of the dishes, and plenty more desserts. Thailand is seen as an exotic holiday by foreign tourists, for beautiful beaches, sun and sea, wonderful culture and smiling people. A serial conman who swindled victims out of more than £1million told a judge that he blew £64,000 on exotic foreign holidays. Most of them have their eyes set on sunnier and more exotic, distant resorts when they plan their holidays. Synonyms foreign, non-native, tropical foreign, faraway, far off, far-flung, unfamiliar 1.1 Attractive or striking because colorful or out of the ordinary. （因亮丽或奇特而）引人注目的，吸引人的 there was a touch of the exotic in her appearance 她的相貌有一点儿魅力。 an exotic outfit 惹人注意的服装。 Example sentencesExamples With the trend being high shine, anything that glows bright jewellery, bright colours, exotic florals, metallic stripes, bold prints, gleams and shimmers will keep you in vogue. For autumn/winter 99 she offers a colourful vision of exotic extravagance. The colour combination gives an exotic appearance, setting this daffodil apart from others. It features a quite attractive, somewhat exotic main theme that immediately catches the ear. Even the eighteenth century British art is looking strikingly exotic. It was a small frog, made of blown glass beads, and decorated in exotic gold paints and garnished in rich, lovely colored fabrics. Start off with any old mixed packet, till you get the hang of it, before going on to the more exotic single coloured varieties. It's not easy to see just what determines which accents will seem disgusting to someone, and which will seem merely exotic or even attractive. Some houseplant leaves look wonderful for this as they are glossy or have exotic markings or colouration. She had always been attracted to the exotic, the different, and the unique. Also noteworthy is the creative matching of gold with a variety of stones and materials in exotic colours. His stories perfectly capture that fascination with exotic names and improbable colours and, best of all, the thrill of making a wise spending choice. It's not just that pelts and plumes are exotic, strikingly patterned or richly textured. I plunge into the old town, an effervescent mixture of colourful sights and exotic smells. They add a dash of exotic colour to what was once a place of busy docks and warehouses, most of which now lie in decay. They had long been seen as a colourful, slightly exotic bunch. Visually, Act II works best in its exotic use of colour and lighting. Some of the most exotic devices have attracted serious interest in military circles. An ordinary paintbrush can create exotic, even outlandish designs with acrylic paint. The vessel had very exotic colours which contrasted with the dull blacknesss of space. Synonyms striking, colourful, eye-catching 1.2 Of a kind not used for ordinary purposes or not ordinarily encountered. 异类的，奇特的 exotic elementary particles as yet unknown to science 科学界还不了解的基本异粒子。 Example sentencesExamples Pulsars and quasars may turn out to be commonplace in comparison to the exotic astrophysical events that gravity wave astronomy reveals. A crypto-exotic, by contrast, is a hadron that does not have an exotic quantum number, but does not have a meson or baryon body plan either. But there are potentially more exotic applications over the horizon: quantum computers. Keep in mind that you're not talking about exotic fuels per se. Despite this careful redefinition of the velocity of a wave, there are, in fact, still exotic situations where the group velocity can exceed c. You say you got a 94% conversion with that exotic chiral zinc reagent? Some of the proposals include exotic electronic states that have not yet been observed in any system. Tea needs relatively more sunlight than coffee and the exotic silver oak has been the tree of choice to provide the scant shade that the plants need. Physicists have coaxed a few atoms into exotic states that fit the bill, but they didn't make much of a computer. However, anti-matter is an exotic form of matter which is extremely expensive to produce. The engines of tomorrow's PCs may be based not on silicon dioxide but on exotic new compounds such as perovskite oxide or even the stuff of life itself, DNA. Something with pressure comparable to its energy density is exotic. Unfortunately, my wife does not share my enthusiasm for the aroma of burnt rubber and exotic fuels. Even airplanes, RC cars, and chainsaws have experienced power boosts from some of VPs exotic fuels. Many physicists assumed that a more exotic underlying mechanism was responsible for superconductivity in magnesium diboride. As this discussion makes clear, the issue of exotic hadrons exposes profound weaknesses in our current understanding of the strong interaction. It would eliminate many of the exotic chemicals and processes now used to make chips. What you don't get in one of these knives is exotic steel with a tip-of-the-tongue collector name. Supersymmetric theories are good places to look for exotic matter in the form of fermionic superpartners of bosonic particles that carry forces. Some installers are adding broken glass, bits of metal, and other exotic materials to the mix, and diamond polishing afterwards. nounɪɡˈzɑdɪkiɡˈzädik An exotic plant or animal. 引进的植物（或动物）外国种 he planted exotics in the sheltered garden 他在不受风雨侵袭的花园里种了引进植物。 Example sentencesExamples You don't have to be a Shakespeare scholar to know that the Prince of Denmark is not contemplating a castle grounds filled with invasive exotics when he utters these lines. It is important to remember that many exotics have ‘gotten loose’ in southern landscapes and actually choked out native species in their own habitat. This could be an especially harmful exotic because its venomous spines are dangerous to humans and other fish. ‘I didn't want to get into battle with the deer,’ she says, so she made sure to avoid exotics that deer find tasty. In Hawaii today, as in Australia, many exotics are aggressive and pushing out the indigenous plants. In the past exotics were mostly planted, mainly because they were easier to prune, and their root systems didn't interfere with the underground service pipes. Exotics such as cotton palms and African mahoganies which are favoured by the turtle and Barbary doves, should be avoided. This could refer to any of the passerines, though most likely a canary or similar caged exotic. Gooseberries and apples, in fact, figure just as largely in the early Transactions of the Royal Horticultural Society as new exotics like dahlias and chrysanths. There is a wide range of trees and shrubs, exotics and natives, and even in winter there is some colour. A mixture of natives and exotics has been planted closely with a view to thinning later. But once the oaks die, grasses and exotics, like Scotch broom, will seed in aggressively, provoking a hotter flame. Native plants are preferable, but many enthusiasts swear by exotics such as single varieties of fuchsia, as well as lantana and red-hot poker. Encouraging people to use host plants in their gardens is one way to move away from exotics and invasive plants which can be damaging to the wider environment. There was no mention made of the fact that the beaver is a native North American species whereas the cherry trees are exotics, imported from Japan. Yet the shorthair influence, though remote, is difficult to remove, and even now few people breed one exotic to another more than once every two or three generations. An important feature of the site is the lack of invasive non-native exotics like rhododendron and laurel. And of course, all those wonderful exotics planted in Joubert Park are still there, thriving since they were planted over 100 years ago. Although he relies heavily on native plants, he keeps his mind and garden open to exotics, as long as they are appropriate for his Zone 8 garden. As in Hawaii, one of the most invasive and damaging exotics is the guava plant, which covers more than 12% of the farm area of the biggest island in the group. Origin Late 16th century: via Latin from Greek exōtikos ‘foreign’, from exō ‘outside’.
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