Thursday, September 18, 2008

ENDEMIC

characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people

/a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or people living in a particular location

native to or confined to a certain species.

"It was due to the endemic height of the people of this region that NBA scouts constantly visited."

"The plant was endemic to to this part of the island."

"This was a terrible endemic for the pygmy people, of which they would never fully recover."

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