exotics

• He cultivated both native plants and exotics, at a time when native plants were often viewed as inferior.
• These exotics, they're called Tanu, by the way, seem to have widely scattered settlements, each with a central urban area and satellite supporting plantations. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
• Here and there among the lofty exotics were a few smaller human figures, just as gaudily dressed, but wearing silver torcs instead of the Tanu gold. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
• What did you think they meant I don't know, perhaps I assumed that the exotics were able to use their coercive power to fend off attackers. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
• Not only our talents but our very genes have been placed in the service of these exotics, and many, such as Martha, choose death rather than the degradation of becoming brood stock. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May

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