endemic
UK/ɛnˈdɛm.ɪk/
endemic adjective: native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs.
Adjective
endemic (not comparable)
- Native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs.
- The endemic religion of Easter Island arrived with the Polynesian settlers.
- Synonyms:
- native
- 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 […]1966 October, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume I, New York, N.Y.; London: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 4
- Synonyms:
- indigenous, precinctive
- Prevalent in a particular area or region, persistent within a population.
- Malaria is endemic to the tropics.
- These problems are endemic to the theory of thematic roles as currently conceived, because the classification it implies simply does not correspond to legitimate linguistic semantic definitions.1998, Gillian Catriona Ramchand, Deconstructing the Lexicon, in Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds. “The Projection of Arguments”
Noun
endemic (plural endemics)
- 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.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 34
- A disease affecting a number of people simultaneously, so as to show a distinct connection with certain localities.
endemic meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Telugu and Arabic
endemic in Tamil
- தாயகம், ஒரு பகுதிக்குரித்தான, திணையின் முறைப்பட்ட, அகணிய, ஓரிட, ஒருவகைதாக்கும்
endemic in Urdu
- علاقائی, کسی خطہ سے متعلق
endemic in Telugu
- endemic
- ఎండెమిక్ eṇḍemik
endemic in Arabic
- native to a particular area
- مُتَوَطِّن mutawaṭṭin
- peculiar to a particular area
- مُتَوَطِّن mutawaṭṭin
Examples of endemic in a sentence
- Thanks to various kinds of endemic incompetence, humans show no prospect of ending all wars.
- Satyrisation is also the mechanism by which introduced mosquito species displace native mosquito species, particularly island endemics.
- Schizopodidae, called "false jewel beetles", are a small group of beetles endemic to the western North America.
Synonyms of endemic
Antonyms
Forms of endemic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | endemick |
| Noun | |
| plural | endemics |
Origin of endemic
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.
Words formed from endemic
Words that rhyme with endemic
- academic
- epidemic
- chemic
- demic
- polemic
- infodemic
- pandemic
- philodemic
- philopolemic
- plandemic
- postpandemic
- systemic
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- alchemic
- allelochemic
- anthemic
- anti-epidemic
- antiacademic
- antiepidemic
- chemick
- chernozemic
- chronosystemic
- diasystemic
- ecoepidemic
- electrochemic
- endemoepidemic
- eudemic
- geochemic
- haremic
- holoendemic
- hyperendemic
- hyperepidemic
- hypoendemic
- interacademic
- interepidemic
- interpandemic
- intraepidemic
- intrapandemic
- mesoendemic
- microendemic
- microepidemic
- monosystemic
- multisystemic
- myxedemic
- near-endemic
- non-academic
- nonacademic
- nonendemic
- nonepidemic
- nonpandemic
- nonsystemic
- palaeoendemic
- paleoendemic
- panepidemic
- photochemic
- pingdemic
- polemick
- polydemic
- polysystemic
- portasystemic
- portosystemic
Questions about endemic
- What does endemic mean?
- Endemic means native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs.
- What is endemic in Tamil?
- Endemic in Tamil is தாயகம், ஒரு பகுதிக்குரித்தான, திணையின் முறைப்பட்ட. See Endemic meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is endemic?
- Endemic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce endemic?
- Endemic is pronounced /ɛnˈdɛm.ɪk/ (UK).
Words near endemic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: endemic (page history and authors); endemic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); endemic (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ఎండెమిక్ (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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