Adjective endemic has 3 senses
  1. endemic, endemical - of or relating to a 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"
    Antonyms: epidemic, pandemic, pestilent, pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey, epiphytotic, epizootic, ecdemic
  2. endemic - native to or confined to a certain region; "the islands have a number of interesting endemic species"
    Antonyms:
    cosmopolitan, widely distributed
  3. autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous - originating where it is found; "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"
    Antonym: foreign (indirect, via native)
,Noun endemic has 2 senses
  1. endemic, endemic disease - 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
    --1 is a kind of disease
  2. endemic - a plant that is native to a certain limited area; "it is an endemic found only this island"
    --2 is a kind of
    plant, flora, plant life
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