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English Dictionary: endemic	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
endemic adj 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" Synonym(s): endemic, endemical Antonym(s): ecdemic, epidemic native to or confined to a certain region; "the islands have a number of interesting endemic species" Antonym(s): cosmopolitan, widely distributed originating where it is found; "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo"; "autochthonous rocks and people and folktales"; "endemic folkways"; "the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan" Synonym(s): autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous n a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location Synonym(s): endemic, endemic disease a plant that is native to a certain limited area; "it is an endemic found only this island"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Endemic \Endem"ic\, a. 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 . . . from a kind of endemic symbolism. --F. W. H. Myers.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Endemic \Ende"mic\, Endemical \Ende"mical\, a. [Gr. [?], [?]; [?] + [?] the people: cf. F. end[82]mique.] (Med.) Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic* disease. Note: 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Endemic \Endem"ic\, n. (Med.) An endemic* disease. Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart, sometimes rises into an epidemic. --J. B. Heard.