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- (of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area（疾病, 情况）流行的：
complacency is endemic in industry today.
目前行业中充斥着自满情绪。
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- attrib. denoting an area in which a particular disease is regularly found（疾病）地方性的。
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- (of a plant or animal) native or restricted to a certain country or area（植物, 动物）某地特有的：
a marsupial endemic to north-eastern Australia.
澳大利亚东北部特有的有袋动物。
- an endemic plant or animal某地特有的动物（或植物）。
派生词
endemically
adverbendemicity
/ˌendɪˈmɪsətɪ/ nounendemism
/ˈendɪmɪzəm/ noun （仅限形容词义项2）词源
mid 17th cent. (as a noun)： from French endémique or modern Latin endemicus, from Greek endēmios 'native' （based on dēmos 'people'）.