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Exotic

adjective

Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world. Synonym: alien. "Exotic plants in a greenhouse" , "Exotic cuisine"

Strikingly strange or unusual. "Protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants" , "The exotic landscape of a dead planet"

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... elephant-guns and ammunition for them. Johnny, as the heir to innumerable millions back on earth, had had a happy life, but hardly one to give him a practical view of things. To him, star-travel meant landing on such exotic planets as the fictioneers had been writing about for a hundred years or so. He really looked upon the venture into space as a combined big-game expedition and escape from Lunar City. And he did ...

— Operation: Outer Space • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... After devoting pages to the Chateau, its grounds, pictures, and statues, and detailing exhaustively the riches of the Trianons, he blandly mentions the gardens of the Petit Trianon as containing "some fine exotic trees, an artificial lake, a Temple of Love, and a hamlet where the Court ladies played at ...

— A Versailles Christmas-Tide • Mary Stuart Boyd

... sat the proprietor at a desk, adding up figures in a large book. He was very fat, and his chins went all the way round his neck in grooves, as if his thick throat might pull out like an accordion. There was something curiously exotic about him, as there is in persons of mixed races; an olive pallor of skin, an oiliness of black hair, and a jetty brightness ...

— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... from early childhood—guided him where men without such power feel all astray. But yet, there is something about the book which may be quite right and true, but does not to me quite savour of the healthy sound theology of the Church of England; the fragrance is rather that of an exotic plant; here and there I mean—though I feel angry with myself for daring to think this, and to say it to you, who can ...

— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge

... her on the river-breeze, intensified her desire for escape from conventional limitations. Oh! to find herself under totally new conditions! The heavy fragrance of magnolia and gardenia blossoms seemed freighted with exotic suggestion. The tropical odours blended with the perfume of autumn roses, which made a trellis over her head and overran the balustrades. The subtle mingling of perfumes that float in the clear air of an Australian garden, when the fierce heats of summer are gone, ...

— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed

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