apodemic

Meanings

1. A kind of methodical guidebook for travelers, offering practical advice and instructions on what to see.

1. Of or pertaining to travel methodology.
2. Not endemic; found both inside a particular region and outside it (regardless of origin).

1. Of or pertaining to the apodeme, an ingrowth of the arthropod exoskeleton.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀπόδημος (apódēmos) + -ic, from ἀπο- (apo-, “away from”) + δῆμος (dêmos, “country, people”). Apparently, in the travel sense, coined by German-language authors in the sixteenth century.