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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.

Foreign; not native; exotic. [R.] -- Ex*ot"ic*al*ness, n.

The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.

ing anything from loss, decay, waste, or injury; particulary, a greenhouse for preserving exotic or tender plants.

substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.

Native; produced, growing, or living, naturally in a country or climate; not exotic; not imported. Negroes were all transported from Africa and are not indigenous or proper natives of America. Sir T. Browne. In America, cotton, being indigenous, is cheap. Lion Playas.

A collection of wild or exotic animals, kept for exhibition.

A glucoside found in the flowers of a plant (Murraya exotica) of South Asia, and extracted as a white amorphous slightly bitter substance.

Foreign; not native; extrinsic or from without; exotic. [Spelt also pelegrine.] "Peregrine and preternatural heat." Bacon. Peregrine falcon (Zoöl.), a courageous and swift falcon (Falco peregrinus), remarkable for its wide distribution over all the continents. The adult plumage is dark bluish ash on the back, nearly bl…

includes the mullein, foxglove, snapdragon, figwort, painted cup, yellow rattle, and some exotic trees, as the Paulownia.

Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Having a trellis or trellises. Cottages trellised over with exotic plants. Jeffrey.