Usually means: Unusual, strikingly different from familiar.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word exotic:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. exotic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. exotic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exotic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exotic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exotic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exotic, exotic: Wordnik
  7. exotic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. exotic: Wiktionary
  9. exotic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. exotic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. exotic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Exotic, exotic: Dictionary.com
  13. exotic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. exotic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Exotic (Priyanka Chopra song), Exotic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Exotic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. exotic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. exotic: Rhymezone
  19. exotic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. exotic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. exotic: Free Dictionary
  22. exotic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. exotic: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. exotic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exotic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Exotic (cat), exotic: Medical dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Exotic: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  6. Biological Control (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Exotic: Coffee Glossary

(Note: See exotically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
adjective:  Non-native to the ecosystem.
adjective:  extraterrestial, alien
adjective:  (finance) Being or relating to an option with features that make it more complex than commonly traded options.
adjective:  (gambling) Being or relating to various wagers, such as the trifecta, that involve betting on the finishing positions of multiple competitors across one or more races.
noun:  (biology) An organism that is exotic to an environment.
noun:  An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
noun:  (physics) Any exotic particle.

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