See Also: ecdemic(medicine)

Barbados (iou) and ecdemic (medicine)


Barbados (iou)



Barbados noun. Also Barbadoes. L17.
[An island in the W. Indies, formerly (the) Barbadoes.]
Used attrib. to designate things from or characteristic of Barbados, esp. plants.
Barbados cherry (the edible fruit of) a neotropical tree, Malpighia glabra (family Malpighiaceae). Barbados GOOSEBERRY. Barbados lily = HIPPEASTRUM. Barbados pride a W. Indian leguminous shrub, Caesalpinia pulcherrima, bearing red flowers with yellow petal margins.

ecdemic (medicine)


ecdemic
<epidemiology> Denoting a disease brought into a region from without.

Origin: G. Ekdemos, foreign, from Home, fr. Demos, people