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endemic Adjective present within a localized area or only found in a particular group of people: he found 100 species of plant endemic to that ridge [Greek en- in + dēmos the people]
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Translations adj endemic [enˈdemik] (of a disease etc) regularly found in people or a district owing to local conditions Malaria is endemic in/to certain tropical countries. endemies مُسْتَوْطِن ендемичен endemický endemisk heimisch ενδημικός endémico endeemiline بومی endeeminen endémique מַחָלָה נְפוֹצָה विशेष क्षेत्री, स्थानिक endemski endemikus, endémiás (betegség) mewabah landlægur endemico 風土性の 어떤 지방 특유의 vietinis, endeminis (par slimību) endēmisks, vietējs endemik endemisch knyttet til et bestemt område, endemisk endemiczny endémico endemic эндемический endemický endemičen endemski endemisk, inhemsk เฉพาะพื้นที่ yerel, yöresel (疾病等)地方性的 ендемічний; місцевий کسے خاص طبقے یا علاقے میں پایا جانے والا bệnh địa phương (疾病等)地方性的 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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, in spite of the tergiversations which were endemic, and, it might be said, inevitable, at that period. And something did, for the next summer was made memorable by the prevalence of a mysterious disease--epidemic, endemic, or the Lord knows what, though the physicians didn't--which carried away a full half of the population. Sclater, informs me that this is the case with the Strix punctatissima and Pyrocephalus nanus; and probably with the Otus Galapagoensis and Zenaida Galapagoensis: so that the number of endemic birds is reduced to twenty-three, or probably to twenty-one. |
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