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endemic

adj
/ɛnˈdɛm.ɪk/UK

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) + δῆμος (dêmos, “people”) + -ic. Possibly via Ancient Greek ἔνδημος (éndēmos, “among one's people, at home, native”) and/or French endémique. By surface analysis, en- + demic.

  1. derived from endémique
  2. derived from ἐν

Definitions

  1. Native to a particular area or culture

    Native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs.

    • The endemic religion of Easter Island arrived with the Polynesian settlers.

  2. Peculiar to a particular area or region

    Peculiar to a particular area or region; not found in other places.

    • Kangaroos are endemic to Australia.
    • […] a continental northern Alaskan element, including a series of endemic species and disjuncts that have survived the Pleistocene glaciation in northern Alaska and thus represent relicts of the much warmer Tertiary […]

  3. Prevalent in a particular area or region, persistent within a population.

    • Malaria is endemic to the tropics.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. An individual or species that is endemic to a region.

      • The species that appeared as a consequence were endemics; that is, they were found nowhere else in the world.

    2. A disease affecting a number of people simultaneously, so as to show a distinct…

      A disease affecting a number of people simultaneously, so as to show a distinct connection with certain localities.

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Derived

Balkan endemic nephropathy, coendemic, endemical, endemically, endemicity, holoendemic, hyperendemic, hypoendemic, mesoendemic, microendemic, near-endemic, neoendemic, nonendemic, palaeoendemic, paleoendemic, stenoendemic, subendemic, synendemic, tripledemic

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at endemic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at endemic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at endemic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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