Cryptorheic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Cryptorheic is an adjective meaning (hydrology, of a basin or lake) Draining through invisible, subterranean outflows.
Meaning
(hydrology, of a basin or lake) Draining through invisible, subterranean outflows.
More Meanings
- (medicine, obsolete) Pertaining to an unspecified or unidentified discharge or secretion.
Example Sentences
One of these is the cryptorheic basin (hidden river) in the Yucatan State, north of Quintana Roo.
A reasonable deduction would be that under karst (cryptorheic) conditions no surface streams would exist and that we should not look for a "drowned" surface drainage pattern.
Sonoran — extends from Río Sonoyta to the Río Yaqui and intervening small basins, most of them cryptorheic, through desert and semi-desert areas, west of the Sierra Madre Occidental.
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