01 a. Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.
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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.” — F. W. H. Myers.