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Adjective endemic has 3 senses
- 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
- endemic - native to or confined to a certain region; "the islands have a number of interesting endemic species"
Antonyms: cosmopolitan, widely distributed
- 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)
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