| Oxonic | a. [ Prob. glyoxalic + carbonic. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid (C4H5N3O4) not known in the free state, but obtained, in combination with its salts, by a slow oxidation of uric acid, to which it is related. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Exotic | a. [ L. exoticus, Gr. &unr_; fr. 'e`xw outside: cf. F. exotique. See Exoteric. ] Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word. [ 1913 Webster ] Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Exotic | n. Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom. [ 1913 Webster ] Plants that are unknown to Italy, and such as the gardeners call exotics. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Exotical | a. Foreign; not native; exotic. [ R. ] -- Ex*ot"ic*al*ness, n. [1913 Webster] |
| Exoticism | n. The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic. [ 1913 Webster ] |
