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adj. Prevalent in or peculiar to a particular locality, region, or people: diseases endemic to the tropics. See Synonyms at native.

adj. Ecology Native to or confined to a certain region.

n. Ecology An endemic plant or animal.

adj. Native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs.

adj. Peculiar to a particular area or region; not found in other places.

adj. Prevalent in a particular area or region.

n. An individual or species that is endemic to a region.

adj. Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons.

adj. 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; ; -- often distinguished from exotic.

n. An endemic disease.

Peculiar to a people or nation, or to the residents of a particular locality: chiefly applied to diseases.

In phytogeography and zoögeog., peculiar to and characteristic of a locality or region, as a plant or an animal; indigenous or autochthonous in some region, and not elsewhere.

n. A prevalence of endemic disease.

In phytogeography, properly, confined to a particular region, whether indigenous or not: sometimes confused with indigenous.

adj. of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality

n. a plant that is native to a certain limited area

adj. native to or confined to a certain region

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

adj. originating where it is found

"The charges come as Justice Department civil rights division lawyers, at the invitation of New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, conduct a broader probe of the New Orleans Police Department to root out what he called endemic corruption of a department plagued by incompetence long before Katrina."

enzootic    native    endemical   

plant    flora    plant life    disease   

endemic disease   

endemically    endemism   

local    indigenous   

academic    epidemic    glycemic    nonacademic    pandemic    polemic    systemic   

epidemical    venereal    degenerative    contagious    debilitate    pre-existing    untreatable    eruptive    psychosomatic    zymotic