资料来源 : pyDict
异国的,外来的外来物,舶来品
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Exotic \Ex*ot"ic\, n.
Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth,
as a plant, a word, a custom.
Plants that are unknown to Italy, and such as the
gardeners call exotics. --Addison.
Exotic \Ex*ot"ic\, a. [L. exoticus, Gr. ? fr. 'e`xw outside: cf.
F. exotique. See {Exoteric}.]
Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous;
foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.
Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador.
--Evelyn.
资料来源 : WordNet®
exotic
adj 1: being or from or characteristic of another place or part of
the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a
greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine" [syn: {alien}]
2: strikingly strange or unusual; "an exotic hair style";
"protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic
variants"; "the exotic landscape of a dead planet"