(a.) Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.
(n.) Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.
Example Sentences:
(1) The global black market in animal and plants, sold as food, traditional medicines and exotic pets, is worth billions and sees an estimated 350 million specimens traded every year.
(2) This year, the main beneficiaries appear to be Salmon Fishing in the Yemen , which has three nominations, including for its two leads Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which scored two, including its lead Judi Dench.
(3) Does it really want to be a country associated with ‘execution island’ rather than the exotic beaches it was once famed for?
(4) A case is here reported of a 35 year old woman with a history of urticaria following anti-tetanus serum and penicillin injections, who frequently ate exotic fruit, and who was intolerant to alcohol.
(5) The results indicate that extra-specific embryo transfer may be a useful aid to breeding exotic equids in captivity.
(6) Five items involved beliefs about exotic phenomena or philosophical ideas.
(7) The pituitaries of the exotic carp (Carassius carassius) are studied at the light microscopic level, for the characterization of the adenohypophysial cell-types with particular emphasis to the gonadotropic potency of the pituitary in relation to the annual reproductive patterns.
(8) Newly arrived in London from upstate New York, Ruthie remembers Rose, who was 10 years older, as bohemian, exotic and exciting, bursting with energy, despite the three young children in tow.
(9) Hugh Bonneville, who plays Lord Grantham, recently appeared in the Paddington film and Maggie Smith was in the Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, along with Penelope Wilton .
(10) Any Grand Designs fan expecting another of the exotic creations featured in the programme will be disappointed.
(11) Following the development of this comparatively simple device, there has been a succession of increasingly, electrically exotic, electrocardiographs, none of which surpass the original Einthoven instrument in recording accuracy.
(12) They come to see how exotic we are.” Preserving the favela’s culture concerns residents.
(13) The prevention of an introduction of an exotic disease and the control of one subsequent to an introduction will require the attention, cooperation, and support of the livestock industry, regulatory agencies, and researchers.
(14) Principally, there was the legal conflict with actor James Woods, who in 1988 accused her of exotic harassments including leaving a disfigured doll outside his home in Beverly Hills.
(15) Exotic and zoo animal behaviors are also presented by experts in these fields.
(16) Sure, she has large fangs tucked into her soft underside, but she’s docile and exotic.
(17) Nor are they exotic Mafia hits like the killing of Castellano; these are low-level whackings, often linked to squabbles over drugs.
(18) Many others--including most exotic diseases and some that are regulated by governmental agencies, such as tuberculosis and brucellosis--have been omitted.
(19) Gothic began with exotic locales set in the distant past; one of the Victorian period's innovations was to draw this alien otherness back to Britain itself, to the here and now.
(20) Occasionally, I have been invited to try exotic meats, ostrich say, or kangaroo or alligator.
Outlandish
Definition:
(a.) Foreign; not native.
(a.) Hence: Not according with usage; strange; rude; barbarous; uncouth; clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is not outlandish to ask whether different central governments have deliberately promoted development elsewhere.
(2) An IOC member for 23 years he has assidiously collected the leadership of the acronym heavy subsets of that organisation, which may be less riddled with corruption than it was before the Salt Lake City scandal but has swapped outlandish bribes for mountains of bureaucracy.
(3) Likewise, Brynjolfsson doesn’t find the idea of machine-generated populist luxury outlandish.
(4) Alfred McTear's objections are not as outlandish as they might seem.
(5) According to Kadyrov’s multiple outlandish, sometimes confused, statements the enemies aren’t just at the gates, but have entered the castle and are conspiring to take the country down.
(6) Donald Trump has made his outlandish policy of forcing Mexico to pay for his giant wall the centerpiece of his campaign,” said Podesta.
(7) For environmentalists his mining activities are no less outlandish.
(8) An 8% interest rate is not outlandish; the fact it strikes us as so is a measure of how addicted we are to cheap credit.
(9) "Consumers are beginning to realise that this technology isn't an outlandish, futurist concept coming to life from The Jetsons but in fact can be used efficiently and effectively to solve everyday problems," says Alex Hawkinson, CEO of home automation company SmartThings.
(10) As Perry has got older, Claire’s outfits have become increasingly outlandish (he has called her Bo Peep look the “crack cocaine of femininity”).
(11) You get these music videos the kids love, where it’s completely outlandish, luxury everywhere.
(12) Natasha and the other women say that Gary talks of the Raëlian philosophy of sexual freedom, but absolutely deny that the treatment has been used as an attempt to convert them to the outlandish religion.
(13) The only person dressed more outlandishly than Ross and he foolishly hugs her like an adolescent.
(14) Anything was considered, no matter how outlandish.” A former caterer, O’Regan had a long string of innovations behind him, including the establishment of the world’s first duty free shop at the Shannon airport in 1947 after the Irish parliament passed a new law , the Customs Free Act, which exempted transit and embarking passengers, goods and aircraft from normal customs procedures.
(15) The positive case for remaining in the EU will also be made by the Scottish National party’s foreign affairs spokesman, Alex Salmond , on Monday, when he will condemn the warnings about the risks of Brexit as, “at best puerile and at worst outlandish scaremongering”.
(16) When his deal to buy Leeds was confirmed, he invited journalists to his lawyers’ office in London, regaling the assembled crowd with outlandish tales of pot-washing in 1970s England and sincerely inviting a reporter to play with his rock band in Sardinia.
(17) Presented with Trump’s statement that he would go beyond waterboarding, Burr simply replied: “I would not support bringing back waterboarding.” Senator Jeff Sessions, a Trump surrogate who sits on the Senate armed services committee, sought to downplay some of the billionaire’s more outlandish comments on torture and targeting the families of terrorists.
(18) He is in many ways a fascinating player all round: a beautifully balanced two-footed playmaker who is at the same time not particularly athletic, not particularly quick, not particularly strong, not blessed with disorienting charisma or given to outlandish moments of extraordinary skill.
(19) The fancy is so outlandish, yet the unsettling instinct hidden in the luxuriance of the poison garden so resolutely explored, it is no wonder that, on reading this and other of his tales after his father had died in 1864, Julian Hawthorne wrote that he was "unable to comprehend how a man such as I knew my father to have been could have written such books".
(20) Trump has been tabloid fodder for decades, for a colorful personal life, a propensity for outlandish statements and, of course, his hair.