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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. 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;
[syn: endemic, endemic disease]

2. a plant that is native to a certain limited area;
- Example: "it is an endemic found only this island"


ADJECTIVE (3)

1. of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality;
- Example: "diseases endemic to the tropics"
- Example: "endemic malaria"
- Example: "food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world"
[syn: endemic, endemical]

2. native to or confined to a certain region;
- Example: "the islands have a number of interesting endemic species"

3. originating where it is found;
- Example: "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo"
- Example: "autochthonous rocks and people and folktales"
- Example: "endemic folkways"
- Example: "the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan"
[syn: autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Endemic \En*dem"ic\, n. (Med.)
   An endemic disease.
   [1913 Webster]

         Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart,
         sometimes rises into an epidemic.        --J. B. Heard.
   [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Endemic \En*de"mic\, Endemical \En*de"mic*al\, a. [Gr. ?, ?; ? +
   ? the people: cf. F. end['e]mique.] (Med.)
   1. Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of
      persons; as, an endemic disease.
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
         [1913 Webster]

   2. 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.                    --F. W. H.
                                                  Myers.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

endemic
    adj 1: 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"
           [syn: endemic, endemical] [ant: ecdemic,
           epidemic]
    2: native to or confined to a certain region; "the islands have
       a number of interesting endemic species" [ant:
       cosmopolitan, widely distributed]
    3: 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" [syn:
       autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic,
       indigenous]
    n 1: 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 [syn: endemic, endemic disease]
    2: a plant that is native to a certain limited area; "it is an
       endemic found only this island"