exotics
USig-ZAH-tiks/ɪɡˈzɑtɪks/Sayig-ZOT-iksUK/ɪɡˈzɒtɪks/AUS/ɪɡˈzɔtɪks/
- 1Plural of exotic.
Collectors of tropical fish prize their exotics above all the common species.
The nursery devotes an entire greenhouse to exotics from the rainforest.
Note
A regular plural shared by three quite different nouns: non-native organisms, exotic dancers, and exotic particles. Context does the sorting, so a nursery's exotics are plants and a physicist's are particles. Each noun is the adjective made countable. "The exotics" names individual specimens rather than a quality, and the plural is what makes that counting visible.
exotics is a form of exotic
exotic, noun: A performer who dances erotically, often removing clothing, as entertainment. Full entry
- Forms
- exoticexotics plural
- Spelling
- exotic → exotics: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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