exotic

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
exotic /ɪgˈzɒtɪk, ɛg-/

▶adjective

• 1 originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country.

• 2 strikingly different or colourful.

▶noun an exotic plant or animal.

– derivatives
exotically adverb,
exoticism noun.

– origin C16: via L. from Gk exōtikos ‘foreign’, from exō ‘outside’.