exotica

American  

[ig-zot-i-kuh] / ɪgˈzɒt ɪ kə /

plural noun

1. exotic things or objects.

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exotica British  

/ ɪɡˈzɒtɪkə /

plural noun

1. exotic objects, esp when forming a collection

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Etymology

Origin of exotica

1875–80; < Latin, neuter plural of exōticus exotic

Example Sentences

Long viewed in the West as a niche interest — or worse, exotica — African culture has become the continent’s soft power and, increasingly, a source of hard cash.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2023

But is lab-grown meat really likely to put mammoths, dodos and other exotica on the menu?

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2023

To hear Puccini’s score as rife with awkward evocations of Asian exotica and stereotypes is, to me, unfair.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2021

Gate 35X at Reagan National Airport did not have the utilitarian exotica of the Dulles people-movers, trundling across a tarmac Tatooine.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2021

Think what Bill Gates, say, would pay for some tendriled, purply lobed piece of Venusian exotica to put in a pot in his greenhouse.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson