According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
EXOTIC
exotic
(adjective) strikingly strange or unusual; “an exotic hair style”; “protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants”; “the exotic landscape of a dead planet”
alien, exotic
(adjective) being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; “alien customs”; “exotic plants in a greenhouse”; “exotic cuisine”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
exotic (comparative more exotic, superlative most exotic)
Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
Non-native to the ecosystem.
(finance) Being or relating to an option with features that make it more complex than commonly traded options.
Noun
exotic (plural exotics)
(biology) An organism that is exotic to an environment.
An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
(physics) Any exotic particle.
Anagrams
• coxite, excito-
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*ot"ic, a. Etym: [L. exoticus, Gr. exotique. See Exoteric.]
Definition: Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word. Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador. Evelyn.
Ex*ot"ic, n.
Definition: Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom. Plants that are unknown to Italy, and such as the gardeners call exotics. Addison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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