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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Permanently apt to affect brutes in a particular district: said of diseases. Enzoötic and epizoötic have the same meaning in reference to brutes as endemic and epidemic in reference to man.
  • noun The continuous prevalence of a disease among brutes in a particular district.
  • noun A disease of brutes locally prevalent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.

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  • adjective Archaic form of enzootic.

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