Endemic
Native to or restricted to a particular region or population; regularly found among a particular group (often used of diseases).
adjectiveEndemic
Native to or restricted to a particular region or population; regularly found among a particular group (often used of diseases).
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Nerds are a particular group of students who only focus on achieving high academic scores and are usually not sociable.
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Endemic describes things that are native to or regularly found in a particular place or population; not to be confused with epidemic, which refers to widespread disease outbreaks.
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local, native, indigenous, endemicity, endemicism
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Endemic vs. epidemic: endemic means consistently present in a region; epidemic means a disease that affects many people in a region at a given time. Endemic can also describe species native to a region.