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endemical

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective endemical has 1 sense

  • endemical(a = adj.all) endemic - of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality; "diseases endemic to the tropics"; "endemic malaria"; "food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world"

CIDE DICTIONARY

endemicala. [Gr. , ; + the people: cf. F. endémique.].
  •  Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.  [1913 Webster]
    " An endemic disease is one which is constantly present to a greater or less degree in any place, as distinguished from an epidemic disease, which prevails widely at some one time, or periodically, and from a sporadic disease, of which a few instances occur now and then."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Belonging or native to a particular people or country; native as distinguished from introduced or naturalized; hence, regularly or ordinarily occurring in a given region; local; as, a plant endemic in Australia; -- often distinguished from exotic.
    "The traditions of folklore . . . form a kind of endemic symbolism."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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