Definitions for endemics

endemics en·dem·ic

Spelling: [en-dem-ik]
IPA: /ɛnˈdɛm ɪk/

Endemics is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 270 anagrams from letters in endemics (cdeeimns).

Definitions for endemics

noun

  1. an endemic disease.

adjective

  1. natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; indigenous:
  2. belonging exclusively or confined to a particular place:

Origin of endemics

1655-65; New Latin endēmicus, equivalent to Greek éndēm(os) endemic (en- en-2 + dêm(os) people + -os adj. suffix) + Latin -icus -ic

Examples for endemics

endemic: occurring normally where found: native, not introduced.

Riding any anti-Obama hobby horse is endemic to today's GOP.

One species and its two subspecies are endemic to the Solomons.

As was to be expected, scurvy occurred most often in Russia, where it is endemic.

An outbreak in Madagascar, where the disease is endemic, already has involved more than 100 people and killed almost half.

Indeed, a condition of rampant, endemic political corruption is known as a “kleptocracy”—literally, “rule by thieves.”

The findings are unlikely to surprise anyone who has ever worked in a restaurant: sexual harassment is endemic in the industry.

Travel from an endemic area to an under-vaccinated population in the United States is a distinct possibility.

These are the means resorted to in regions where brigandage is endemic.

The first death from fever, or any other endemic, furnishes him with a pretext.

Word Value for endemics
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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