endemical

• HYPHEN: en=dem=i=cal

CIDE DICTIONARY

endemical, a. [Gr. , ; + the people: cf. F. endémique.].

•  Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.  [1913 Webster]

  " An endemic disease is one which is constantly present to a greater or less degree in any place, as distinguished from an epidemic disease, which prevails widely at some one time, or periodically, and from a sporadic disease, of which a few instances occur now and then."  [1913 Webster]
•  Belonging or native to a particular people or country; native as distinguished from introduced or naturalized; hence, regularly or ordinarily occurring in a given region; local; as, a plant endemic in Australia; -- often distinguished from exotic.

  "The traditions of folklore . . . form a kind of endemic symbolism."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]