endemic
endemic
Definition
en·demic (en dem′ik)
adjective
- native to a particular country, nation, or region: said of plants, animals, and, sometimes, customs, etc.
- constantly present in a particular region: said of a disease that is generally under control
Etymology: Fr endémique < endémie, endemic disease < Gr endēmia, a dwelling in < endēmos, native < en-, in + dēmos, the people: see democracy
noun
- an endemic plant or animal
- an endemic disease
en·dem′i·cally adverb
en′·de·mic′·ity (en′də mis′i tē) noun or en·dem′·ism′
endemic
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- localize: White-whiskered Spider Monkey ( Ateles marginatus ) This localized endemic is easily found in the forests around Cristalino Lodge.
- become: Diseases that had been epidemic became endemic in urban centers.
Preposition: in
- sheep: So too was the risk that, if it had done so, it, like scrapie, might become endemic in sheep.
Adjective modifier
- Peruvian: Coastal Miner Geositta peruviana 3 records of this Peruvian endemic in the coastal deserts 2/6.
- Chilean: A Crag Chilia, another Chilean endemic, was then found and although for only a short time, most people saw it well.
- rare: We have two days to explore the lowlands of São Tomé , where the rarest endemics occur.
- near: Three new endemics total now eighteen plus eight of the near endemics.
- Indian: These endemics concerns sometimes birds restricted to the Western Ghats or Southern India, but also more widespread Indian endemics are encountered.
- African: All in all we recorded more than 50 species of which nearly half were South or southern African endemics.
Modifies a noun
- subspecies: Further down we looked for the endemic subspecies of Yellow Warbler.
- sub-species: Five days in northern Taiwan produced a list of 114 species including 12 endemic species and 30 endemic sub-species.
- specie: There are four endemic palm species in three endemic genera.
- corruption: The endemic corruption associated with drug money is nothing new here.
- typhus: Both epidemic and endemic typhus may also be transmitted by inhaling dried louse or flea feces.
- taxon: Lake Prespa is rich with 24 endemic taxa, 13 fish species, six of which are endemic.
Noun used with modifier
- tepui: Wednesday 7 th August Dawn saw us once more at km 122, with fingers very firmly crossed for the remaining tepui endemics.
- trachoma: In most trachoma endemic areas there are not enough ophthalmologists to perform the required number of TT surgeries.
- malaria: Summary report The malaria endemic in Africa is a more dangerous strain than that in Asia.
- island: This island endemic is very similar to our Baltimore Oriole.
- species: The buntings exemplify local adaptive radiation, but may be hybridizing which could eventually produce a new species endemic to the island.
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