Exotic



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Woman Walking in an Exotic Forest (1905 Oil on canvas)

• adj.珍奇的; 来自异国的
• ［英］ adj.珍奇的 ( strikingly unusual) ; 来自异国的 ( not native; foreign)
• ［类］ 反义词: endemic ( 地方的) ; indigenous ( 本土的) ; mundane ( 世俗的)
• ［记］ exo ( 外面) +tic -> 外面来的

Webster Collegiate

I. adjective

• Etymology: Latin exoticus, from Greek exōtikos, from exō
• Date: 1599
• 1. introduced from another country ; not native to the place where found <exotic plants>
• 2. archaic foreign, alien
• 3. strikingly, excitingly, or mysteriously different or unusual <exotic flavors>
• 4. of or relating to striptease <exotic dancing>
• ? exotically adverb
• ? exoticness noun

II. noun

• Date: 1645
• 1. one (as a plant or animal) that is exotic
• 2. stripteaser
• 3. exotic shorthair

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