Endorheic

Quick meaning: Endorheic is an adjective meaning (hydrology) Of a basin or lake: having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation or seepage into the ground.

Meaning

(hydrology) Of a basin or lake: having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation or seepage into the ground.

Example Sentences

Tibetan lakes in the endorheic basins serve as a sensitive indicator to regional climate and water cycle variability.

In the floor of the Rift Valley most of the streams are affected by the tectonic disturbances and are mostly fault-guided besides being endoreic.

During the Pleistocene, the Ajusco closed the fluvial drainage to form the endoreic basin, which initiated sediment accumulation that eventually covered more than half of the valley [...].

In extreme conditions of dryness, desert arises which does not properly exist in Brazil since, according to most geomorphologists, desertification only occurs under endorrhoeic conditions, that is, with the salinization of river basins.

Word Forms

• endoreic
• endorreic
• endorrheic
• endorrhoeic

Synonyms for endorheic

Depending on context, synonyms include closed, terminal.

Antonyms for endorheic

Common opposites include exorheic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exorheic, exhoreic, exoreic, hydroecologic, hydrothecal, hydroecological.

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