exotic

Borrowed from Middle French exotique, from Latin exōticus, from Ancient Greek ἐξωτικός (exōtikós, “foreign”, literally “from the outside”), from ἐξω- (exō-, “outside”), from ἐξ (ex, “out of”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɒtɪk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɑtɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɒtɪk

exotic (comparative more exotic, superlative most exotic)

1. Foreign, especially in an exciting way.

   an exotic appearance

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Evelyn

     Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador.

   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Tremarn Case‎:

     “Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”

   • 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:

     Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

2. Non-native to the ecosystem.
3. (finance) Being or relating to an option with features that make it more complex than commonly traded options.

• exotica

exotic (plural exotics)

1. (biology) An organism that is exotic to an environment.
2. An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
3. (physics) Any exotic particle.

   Glueballs, theoretical particles composed only of gluons, are exotics.

• invasive exotic

• Exotic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Exotic in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• coxite

• IPA^(key): /eɡˈzo.tik/

exotic m or n (feminine singular exotică, masculine plural exotici, feminine and neuter plural exotice)

1. exotic