a plant that is native to a certain limited area; "it is an endemic found only this island"
a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location
native to or confined to a certain region; "the islands have a number of interesting endemic species"
of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality; "diseases endemic to the tropics"; "endemic malaria"; "food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world"
an investigation seeking answers; "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search"
boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of search"
the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
the examination of alternative hypotheses; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful"
an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property; "they wrote a program to do a table lookup"
try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"
subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys"
search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"
someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains; "the lead climber looked strong still but his partner often slumped in his ropes"
a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants
to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock", "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"
make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him"
any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.; "he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests"; "many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides"
the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
an instance of searching for something; "the hunt for submarines"
an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
United States architect (1827-1895)
Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods"
search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these forests"
seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"
oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"
yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose yawed"
chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"
any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack
a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network; "worms take advantage of automatic file sending and receiving features found on many computers"
a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
(law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence
the ability to hear; the auditory faculty; "his hearing was impaired"
a session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken; "the investigative committee will hold hearings in Chicago"
an opportunity to state your case and be heard; "they condemned him without a hearing"; "he saw that he had lost his audience"