Exotic definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary EXOT'IC, a. [Gr. without ... produced in a foreign country; not native; extraneous; as an exotic plant; an exotic term or word. EXOT'IC, n. A plant, shrub or ... of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine" [syn: alien, exotic] 2: strikingly strange or unusual; "an exotic hair style"; " ...
exotic dancer definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a ... by undressing to music [syn: stripper, striptease artist, striptease, stripteaser, exotic dancer, ecdysiast, peeler] 2: a woman who performs a solo belly dance [syn: belly dancer, exotic belly dancer, exotic dancer]
... of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine" [syn: alien, exotic] n 1: a person who comes from a foreign country ... or owing allegiance to another country or government ; foreign c. exotic 1 2. differing in nature or character typically to the ... foreign country; broadly a foreign-born citizen 3. extraterrestrial 4. exotic 1 III. transitive verb Date: 14th century 1. alienate, estrange ... dissociated, disunify, disunite, division, eccentric, emigre, enemy, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, exile, exotic, exterior, external, exterrestrial, exterritorial, extragalactic, extralateral, extraliminal, extramundane, extramural, ...
... r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the quality of being exotic; "he loved the exoticism of Egypt" [syn: exoticism, exoticness, exotism ... exotism noun Date: 1827 the quality or state of being exotic Webster's 1913 Dictionary Exoticism Ex*ot"i*cism, n. The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary Exoticism is the quality of seeming ...
... 2. Native; produced naturally in a country or climate; not exotic; applied to vegetables. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1 ... growing, or living, naturally in a country or climate; not exotic; not imported. Negroes were all transported from Africa and are ... of English Synonyms a. Native, aboriginal, autochthonous, home-grown, not exotic. Moby Thesaurus aboriginal, atavistic, autochthonous, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, connatal ...
... former < in other times > 5. disturbingly or threateningly different ; alien, exotic II. noun Date: before 12th century 1. a. one that ... one considered by members of a dominant group as alien, exotic, threatening, or inferior (as because of different racial, sexual, or ... discrete, disjunct, disparate, disrelated, dissimilar, dissociated, distant, divergent, diverse, else, exotic, extra, extraneous, farther, foreign, fresh, further, happenstance, incidental, incommensurable, incomparable ...
... its best it is a shoddy uncon structive adaptation of exotic features, and if it is to be taken as a ... unskilled use of building materials, influenced by limited knowledge of exotic features, which the Jews had neither the time nor the ...