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Definition of ENDEMIC

Endemic
Endemic En*dem"ic, 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. The traditions of folklore . . . from a kind of endemic symbolism. --F. W. H. Myers.
Endemic
Endemic En*dem"ic, n. (Med.) An endemic disease. Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart, sometimes rises into an epidemic. --J. B. Heard.

Meaning of ENDEMIC from wikipedia

- or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird...
- In epidemiology, an infection is said to be endemic in a specific po****tion or po****ted place when that infection is constantly present, or maintained...
- An Endemic Bird Area (EBA) is an area of land identified by BirdLife International as being important for habitat-based bird conservation because it contains...
- Endemic goitre is a type of goitre that is ****ociated with dietary iodine deficiency. Some inland areas, where soil and water lacks iodine compounds and...
- Zealand before humans arrived, 71% were endemic. Some species are not fully endemic, but are breeding endemic, in that they breed only in New Zealand...
- In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the endemic synod or endemousa synodos (Gr****: ἐνδημοῦσα σύνοδος) was the permanent standing synod of bishops of the Patriarchate...
- overview of this subject see Endemism in birds. ****an has no endemic families. It has one endemic genus: Apalopteron, which contains the Bonin white-eye. The...
- Kumar; Vijayan, Lalitha (26 February 2010). "Status and distribution of endemic and threatened birds of the Eastern Himalaya in Sikkim, India". Journal...
- The following is a list of the 83 known endemic bird species in Colombia (about 4% of Colombian species) with notes about their general distribution....
- This is a master list pertaining to lists of endemic birds. As applied to birds, the term "endemic" refers to any species found only within a defined...