2011年10月4日 星期二

endemic \en-DEM-ik\, adjective: native; indigenous.

endemic \en-DEM-ik\, adjective:
1. Belonging exclusively or confined to a particular place.
2. Natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; indigenous.
noun:
1. An endemic disease.
To avoid the transmission of the parasitic infection malaria, donors who have travelled to endemic areas are deferred.
-- André Picard, The Gift of Death
The interior of this particular police car smells like cigarettes, leather, sweat, and another odor I can't identify that seems endemic to police cars.
-- Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
Endemic is from Greek endemos "native," from en- "in" and demos "people, district."

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