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Word | Endemic |
(of 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 / a plant that is native to a certain limited area / Alt. of Endemical / prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area or country / (of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area. / growing or existing in a certain place or region / common in a particular area or field, | |
Usage | ⇒ This disease is endemic in this part of the world; more than 8 percent of the population are at one time or another affected by it. ⇒ the fish is not an endemic species of the lake, and it is rapidly devouring the native trout population ⇒ areas where malaria is endemic ⇒ Violent crime is now endemic in parts of the city |
Synonyms | indigenous, native, autochthonous, aboriginal, epidemic, autochthonal, local, spreading, autochthonic, catching, contagious, endemical, infectious, disease, endemic disease, epizootic, original, pandemic, domestic, vernacular, |
Antonyms | epidemic, cosmopolitan, ecdemic, foreign, epizootic, nonnative, pandemic, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguey, alien, epiphytotic, exotic, expatriate, immigrant, imported, introduced, nonindigenous, strange, |
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