endemic > define

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.
- synonyms: endemic disease
A plant that is native to a certain limited area.
- usage: "it is an endemic found only this island"

Of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality.
- usage: "diseases endemic to the tropics"; "endemic malaria"; "food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world"
- synonyms: endemical
Native to or confined to a certain region.
- usage: "the islands have a number of interesting endemic species"
Originating where it is found.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, indigenous

(a.) Alternative of Endemical.
(n.) An endemic disease.
(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.

by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary