Endemic /(?)/
En·de·mic
Endemic
a.
- Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease. (Med.)
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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 . . . form a kind of endemic symbolism.
Endemic
n.
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An endemic disease. (Med.)
Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart, sometimes rises into an epidemic.