Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as exotic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Foreign; not native; exotic.

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  • adjective archaic exotic

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Examples

  • Ai likes fyoosha blankee! berry exotical. but… mebbe yu shud comz back tu sepperatez Sweetpea an mee afore she/he pointy fings mee tu def.

    Trash day? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • It contains a choice of 90 tree species; indigenous, exotical and fruit, listed in alphabetical order by botanical name.

    1. Good quality bean seed. 1992

  • Now, few so carefully cultivate the connubial garden, as to feel much surprise at the occasional sting of a homely nettle or two; but who ever expected, before entering that garden, to find himself pricked and lacerated by an insidious exotical "dear," which he had been taught to believe only lived in a hothouse, along with myrtles and other tender and sensitive shrubs which poets appropriate to Venus?

    My Novel — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Definitely you will feel the luxury even from the first sight, because this is the place where you will meet expensive, shining and extremely exotical atmosphere and te hotel is standing in the middle of the resort, showing its shining beauty and offering large suite room, for only …

    Digital Point Forums 2009

  • I thought they went to some exotical location to shoot it?

    unknown title 2009

  • Prettyman, "etc. Now, few so carefully cultivate the connubial garden, as to feel much surprise at the occasional sting of a homely nettle or two; but who ever expected, before entering that garden, to find himself pricked and lacerated by an insidious exotical" dear, "which he had been taught to believe only lived in a hothouse, along with myrtles and other tender and sensitive shrubs which poets appropriate to Venus?

    My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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