What is the meaning of exotic?

adjective

  • Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world.
    • usage: "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine"
  • Strikingly strange or unusual.
    • usage: "an exotic hair style"; "protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants"; "the exotic landscape of a dead planet"
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