Main entry: endemic
Definition: native to or confined to a certain region
Usage: the islands have a number of interesting endemic species
Antonyms: cosmopolitan, widely distributed
Definition: growing or occurring in many parts of the world
Main entry: endemic, endemical
Definition: of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality
Usage: diseases endemic to the tropics; endemic malaria; food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world
Antonyms: epidemic
Definition: (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously
Antonyms: ecdemic
Definition: of or relating to a disease that originates outside the locality in which it occurs
Main entry: indigenous, autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic
Definition: originating where it is found
Usage: 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
Definition: acquired as your own by free choice
Definition: relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world
Antonyms: nonnative
Definition: not being or composed of aborigines