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An organism that is exotic to an environment.
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An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
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Any exotic particle.
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Glueballs, theoretical particles composed only of gluons, are exotics.
Examples of exotics in a Sentence
Best to leave many exotics to the wilds and the zoos.
Many find that they prefer working with large farm animals or exotics, and still others opt to work behind the scenes in veterinary labs.
As a result, the flowers are showy and fragrant, but the vine is not overly aggressive the way pure exotics can be.
It has notes of wild roses and orange peels and hints at exotics such as white pepper, anise and tropical fruits.
Tiger Bayou Boar and Exotics offers great hunting and camping in the Bayou of Louisiana.
If you choose the Wholesale/Retail Online, Printed Guide or Collectible Exotics tabs, it will redirect you to a form where you must supply your name, address, email and telephone to get pricing information.
The botanical gardens on the southern shores of Farm Cove are the finest in the Commonwealth and are distinguished for their immense collection of exotics.
There are some exotics in this zone, like the mango, which thrive so well that they are thought to be indigenous.
The introduction of other exotics into these zones, - made humid by irrigation, which converts them, the one into true austro-riparian the other into true humid tropical, has revolutionized the agricultural, and indeed the whole, economy of California.
A number of foreign animals have been introduced, and more or less domesticated, and some useful exotics have been cultivated for the purpose of testing their applicability to French agriculture or horticulture; but neither in the case of animals nor of plants has there been any systematic effort to modify the constitution of the species, by breeding largely and selecting the favourable variations that appeared.
Among the exotics, sugar-cane, rice and tobacco are cultivated in the warm districts.
Among the more common fruit-trees, some of which are exotics, may be mentioned cacao (Theobroma), orange, lemon, lime, pine-apple, banana, guava (Psidium), breadfruit (Artocarpus), cashew (A nacardium), alligator pear (Pers ea), with the apple, peach, pear, and other fruits of the temperate zone on the elevated plateaus.
In the southern provinces flourish also various subtropical exotics, such as the banana, the West Indian cherimoya, and the prickly pear or Indian fig (Opuntia vulgaris), the last frequently grown as a hedge-plant, as in other Mediterranean countries, and extending even to the southern part of the table-land.
Ideal landscapes were designed and planted out with standard temperate trees and newly introduced exotics from the Americas.
William Robinson banished bedding systems, and turned to planting with native species and hardy exotics, creating informal, wild and woodland gardens.