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Kareems business started to blossom (if you don't mind the pun) as he expanded his range in crotons, orchids, and developed what he calls his exotic range of fruit trees.

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  1. adjective From another part of the world; foreign: exotic tropical plants in a greenhouse. See Synonyms at foreign.
  2. adjective Intriguingly unusual or different; excitingly strange: "If something can be explained simply, in a familiar way, then it is best to avoid more exotic explanations” (Chet Raymo). See Synonyms at fantastic.
  3. adjective Of or involving striptease: an exotic dancer.
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  • A taste for the exotic, and all that You lost the money gambling? —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 05 - May 1994
  • I wonder if it had anything to do with making it 'value-added' by denoting its foreign - and therefore 'exotic' - origins. —  The Malay Male
  • Kareems business started to blossom (if you don't mind the pun) as he expanded his range in crotons, orchids, and developed what he calls his exotic range of fruit trees. —  newsday.co.tt
  • The way she massages the word ever week, all French and exotic -- —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Now talk about exotic, they have beautiful women and gorgeous men. —  Home
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin exōticus, from Greek exōtikos, from exō, outside; see exo-.

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  1. Formerly also exotick; = French exotique = Spanish exótico = Portuguese exotico = Italian esotico (cf. German exotisch = Danish Swedish exotisk), from Latin exoticus, from Greek ἑξωτικός, foreign, alien, ecclesiastical heathen, from ἒξω, outside.
 

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