Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being endemic.
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- noun The quality of being
endemic .
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Examples
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Establishment of endemicity in a university medical center.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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Establishment of endemicity in a university medical center.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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Establishment of endemicity in a university medical center.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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High levels of endemicity of 3-chlorobenzoate-degrading soil bacteria.
Recent and projected changes in arctic species distributions and potential ranges 2009
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Included in the MoC list are 92 species plus 42 varieties or subspecies of interest for their rarity, endemicity, ornamental or medicinal value.
Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area, China 2009
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The Southern Rift Montane Ecoregion is both poorer in species richness and endemicity than the Eastern Arc Forest and Albertine Rift Montane Forest ecoregions to the north.
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The Southern Rift Montane ecoregion is similarly separated from the Albertine Rift Mountains ecoregion to the northwest on the basis of endemicity and overall biodiversity, as the latter is richer in each category.
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The Geometridae family (Lepidoptera) contains approximately 50 percent endemicity.
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Barbine fish account for 81 percent of the fauna with 30 species: total endemicity is 50 percent with 45 percent of endemics occurring in a single drainage system.
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Within this ecoregion, the Arfak Range, with twenty-three endemic species, and the Wamdammen Range, with seven endemic species, are both centers of butterfly endemicity on the island of New Guinea.
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Epidemiologists refer to the persistence of a pathogen in a community or population as endemicity.
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seanahan commented on the word endemicity
The proper pronunciation of this word is almost impossible for me to match up with the root, it just sounds too different.
April 10, 2009