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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
endemical, a. [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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