adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an exotic flower
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We grow exotic flowers from all over the world.
an exotic pet (= from a foreign country and not seen or found very often )
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Often the owners do not know how to care for these exotic pets.
an exotic/far-off destination (= far away from where you are, and exciting )
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The company arranges tours to exotic destinations such as Nepal.
exotic dancer
exotic food (= unusual because of being from a foreign country )
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The shop specializes in selling exotic food like kangaroo and crocodile meat.
exotic (= unusual and interesting because it seems foreign )
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The dancer left a waft of exotic perfume in the air.
exotic/tropical plants
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Exotic plants can be grown in a greenhouse.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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There was a kind of safety here that she found as exotic as a dogwood and as beautiful.
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Things we think of as exotic grow wild here, like the mimosa.
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Griffin &038; Sabine leaves you wishing for a missive as exotic through your own front door.
more
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Anne Wallwork was retained on a permanent basis to help with some of Laura's more exotic ideas.
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Together they plan for a future in New York City with more exotic women than one is apt to find in Indiana.
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Remembering he didn't like grapes, she had lined up more exotic things like dates, kumquats and some out-of-season strawberries.
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The balan turned out to be nothing more exotic than an infected blister.
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As courses proliferate, they promote themselves with ever more exotic gimmicks.
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Could anything in chlorinated water be more exotic , more thrilling, more significant than that?
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There were other thinkers, Bowman also found, who held even more exotic views.
most
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Today the contest is held within strict bounds and has become one of the most exotic spectacles in the Imperial calendar.
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Certainly she was the most exotic woman he had ever known.
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Clay mineral samples are the best described here, while forensic materials belong to the most exotic kind.
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There were eighteen courses, the most exotic being the confectionery.
■ NOUN
animal
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All exotic animals , other than humans of course, are banned from this last wilderness by international agreement.
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Rarely in the history of art have little boys or exotic animals been portrayed as sensual odalisques.
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Most scientists are now persuaded that control of the exotic animals takes precedence over much other work.
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The display of exotic animals in zoos was a public manifestation of the industrialized nations' ability to dominate the world.
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There was less interest in transferring exotic animal species around the world.
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Very few exotic animals make good pets.
bird
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David Woolcock from Paradise Park says exotic birds are very important.
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For example, zoo security officials were told of one man who was boasting of his plans to steal exotic birds .
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There are big profits to be made in the international exotic bird trade.
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The women's hats and bright make-up made them look like exotic birds .
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According to the report, twenty thousand exotic birds die each year while being imported to Britain.
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The Government is also concerned at the way exotic birds are transported.
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He puffed up his chest like an exotic bird engaged in a courtship dance.
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Over 300,000 visitors a year enjoy the waterfalls, flower gardens, exotic birds , animal life and the children's playground.
flower
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The arrangements will include exotic flowers from many parts of the world.
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The exotic flowers we crossbred on the farm never lasted as long as the wild ones which grew naturally.
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Perhaps visit some of the pavilions showing specialised exhibitions of exotic flowers , trees and plants - a truly breathtaking sight.
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Beeton Rumford staff then transformed the ship's hold, with a steel band, palms and exotic flowers .
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It's full of exotic flowers to attract and feed them.
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Her head swayed like a heavy and exotic flower on a delicate stalk.
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It is a vigorous climber bearing masses of exotic flowers followed by yellow, plum-like fruits.
fruit
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Many of the exotic fruits may provide a wonderful meal for the traveller, but some contain a deadly poison.
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Cube for fruit salad with other exotic fruit.
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The first 3O minute tape focuses on 13 exotic fruits , suggesting the listener touch and smell them.
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Other exotic fruit trials are being planned.
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For most of its nations, the tomato was such an exotic fruit that it deserved a noble title.
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Classic New World Chardonnay with vanilla, butter and exotic fruit aromas.
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Grape, apple, unsweetened orange, grapefruit, pineapple, or exotic fruit juices may be drunk in moderation.
location
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All the world's exotic locations are open to you.
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Some of the inspiration for this move came from botanists who had travelled to the tropics and other exotic locations .
place
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Her ear-rings, too, were a gift from some exotic place .
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I had started to see the countries we visited as more than just exotic places to get a tan.
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It is not enough for me to explore, to retreat graciously into the dust and floorboards of those exotic places .
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Try to pin down the ones who can not sit still because there is always another exotic place to be.
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But then I asked for just one spell of six months as a locum in some exotic place .
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Anyone else in faraway and exotic places would like their own 200 word slot?
plant
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It gives you the potential to raise many varieties of exotic plants .
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Experience with exotic plants and insects has been even more unhappy than with animal importations.
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There is the potential here for a startling garden of exotic plants .
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He sounded as though he disapproved of exotic plant feeds and the new variety of vegetative showmanship.
species
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As Gould rightly assumed, vast areas of terraincognita held enormous possibilities for new and exotic species .
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It has hundreds of exotic species .
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Firing alien genes into a different genome is exactly the same thing as introducing exotic species into a foreign eco-system.
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Another concern was the problem of uncontrolled importations of exotic species .
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The Cotswold Wild Life Park is home to many exotic species of animals ranging from big cats to tarantulas.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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exotic birds from New Guinea
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Forest Goblins wear exotic war paint, carry war axes and are often decorated with colourful feathers.
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Most are bizarre and interesting, but they often lack the hardiness and exotic colors of the coral fishes.
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The exotic appeal of the domestic does not, however, last.
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Three weeks later Oliver came back from somewhere exotic , and there were the three of us.
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We are not going to do anything exotic .