a. and sb. [f. Gr. ἐν in + ζῷον animal + -IC, on the analogy of chaotic, hypnotic, etc. Cf. Fr. enzootique.]
A. adj. Applied to diseases of cattle peculiar to a district, climate, or season, in the same manner as Endemic is employed to indicate those of human beings (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
B. sb. An enzootic disease.
1880. J. Gamgee, in Times, 15 Sept., 7/6. Fortified by a knowledge of endemics and enzootics in other regions of the earth.
1882. G. Fleming, Vivisection, in 19th Cent., No. 61. 472. The disease [anthrax] is enzoötic in the half-submerged valleys and the maritime coasts of Catalonia.