Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Exotic

Exotic , adjective

[Latin exoticus, Greek {not transcribed} from 'e`xw outside: compare French exotique. See Exoteric.]

Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.
Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador. — Evelyn

Exotic , noun

Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.
Plants that are unknown to Italy, and such as the gardeners call exotics. — Addison