"endorheic" meaning in English

See endorheic in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˌɛndə(ʊ)ˈɹiːɪk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌɛndoʊˈɹiɪk/ [General-American], /-də/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-endorheic.wav [Received-Pronunciation]
Etymology: PIE word *h₁én From English endo- (prefix meaning ‘internal, inside, within’) + Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow, gush, stream”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow, stream”)) + English -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining’ to forming adjectives). Etymology templates: {{l|ine-pro|*h₁én}} *h₁én, {{PIE word|en|h₁én}} PIE word *h₁én, {{root|en|ine-pro|*srew-}}, {{glossary|prefix}} prefix, {{m|en|endo-|pos=prefix meaning ‘internal, inside, within’}} endo- (prefix meaning ‘internal, inside, within’), {{der|en|grc|ῥέω|t=to flow, gush, stream}} Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow, gush, stream”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*srew-|t=to flow, stream}} Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow, stream”), {{glossary|suffix}} suffix, {{glossary|adjective}} adjective, {{m|en|-ic|pos=suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining’ to forming adjectives}} -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining’ to forming adjectives) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} endorheic (not comparable)
  1. (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. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Hydrology Synonyms: closed, terminal, endoreic, endorreic, endorrheic Coordinate_terms: cryptorheic Translations (having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation): endorreiko (Basque), бяссцёкавая (bjasscjókavaja) (Belarusian), безотточна (bezottočna) (Bulgarian), 內流 (Chinese Mandarin), 内流 (nèiliú) (Chinese Mandarin), bezodtoký (Czech), endorheisk (Danish), endoreïsch (Dutch), senelflua (Esperanto), äravooluta (Estonian), sisäinen (Finnish), endoréique (French), endorreico (Galician), გაუდინარი (gaudinari) (Georgian), endorheisch (German), lefolyástalan (Hungarian), endoreik (Indonesian), endoreico (Italian), ағынсыз (ağynsyz) (Kazakh), 내륙 유역 (naeryuk yuyeok) (Korean), endorheicus (Latin), beznoteces (Latvian), endorheisk (Norwegian Bokmål), endorheisk (Norwegian Nynorsk), endoreïc (Occitan), bezodpływowy (Polish), endorreico (Portuguese), endoreic (Romanian), бессточный (besstočnyj) (Russian), endoréicu (Sardinian), endoreičan [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), endoreična (Slovene), endorreico (Spanish), endorheisk (Swedish), kapalı (Turkish), безсті́чна (bezstíčna) (Ukrainian)

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          "ref": "1971, Francis F. Ojany, “Drainage Evolution in Kenya”, in S[imeon] H. Ominde, editor, Studies in East African Geography and Development, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, page 138, column 2",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1981, Maria-Rosa Miracle, “Biogeographica del Zooplàncton dels Llacs dels Pirineus [Biogeography of the Zooplankton from the Lakes of the Pyrenees]”, in Biogeografia de la Mediterrània Occidental [Biogeography of the Western Mediterranean] (Treballs de la Institució Catalana d’Història Natural [Works of the Catalan Institute of Natural History]; 9), Barcelona: Institució Catalana d’Història Natural, summary, page 147",
          "text": "The calanoid species more frequent in the Pyrenees is Diaptomus cyaneus, species with a relict occurrence in Dalmatia, endorreic and litoral lagoons of the western Mediterranean countries and frequent in the Pyrenees and in the North African Atlas.",
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          "ref": "1998, Brian Moss, “Lakes, Pools and Other Standing Waters: Some Basic Features of Their Productivity”, in Ecology of Fresh Waters: Man and Medium, Past to Future, 3rd edition, Malden, Mass., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Blackwell Publishing, page 198",
          "text": "In other cases, the basin may be large but the water-supply so low that there is no outflow and water leaves only by evaporation. The catchment-derived water-supply, in evaporating, leaves salts and the basin becomes an endorheic (internally drained) salt lake.",
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          "text": "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 [...].",
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          "text": "The basin of Lake Zempoala is endorreic. Precipitation and running off from the watershed are the only source of water income whose budget is not balanced: annual precipitation and evaporation are 1200–1500 mm and 1600 mm, respectively [...].",
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          "ref": "2012 January–February, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, New Haven, Conn.: Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-04-12, page 46",
          "text": "Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake's neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. [...] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.",
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          "roman": "gaudinari",
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      "expansion": "suffix",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "adjective"
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      "expansion": "adjective",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-ic",
        "pos": "suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining’ to forming adjectives"
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      "expansion": "-ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining’ to forming adjectives)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "PIE word\n *h₁én\nFrom English endo- (prefix meaning ‘internal, inside, within’) + Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow, gush, stream”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow, stream”)) + English -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining’ to forming adjectives).",
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        "1": "-"
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      "expansion": "endorheic (not comparable)",
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    }
  ],
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    "en‧do‧rhe‧ic"
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "exorheic"
        }
      ],
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        "English 4-syllable words",
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *srew-",
        "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁én",
        "English terms prefixed with endo-",
        "English terms suffixed with -ic",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Pages with raw sortkeys",
        "en:Hydrology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1937, Collected Papers: Osborn Zoological Society, Yale University, volume 19, New Haven, Conn.: Osborn Zoological Society, Yale University, →OCLC, page 94",
          "text": "[I]n some cases channels leading towards the sea may exist in an endorheic region, in which, however, there is so little rain that the entire load in the water-courses is lost through evaporation before it can reach the mouths of the channels. On the other hand all closed lakes of the kind now being considered must lie in endorheic regions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Francis F. Ojany, “Drainage Evolution in Kenya”, in S[imeon] H. Ominde, editor, Studies in East African Geography and Development, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, page 138, column 2",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, Maria-Rosa Miracle, “Biogeographica del Zooplàncton dels Llacs dels Pirineus [Biogeography of the Zooplankton from the Lakes of the Pyrenees]”, in Biogeografia de la Mediterrània Occidental [Biogeography of the Western Mediterranean] (Treballs de la Institució Catalana d’Història Natural [Works of the Catalan Institute of Natural History]; 9), Barcelona: Institució Catalana d’Història Natural, summary, page 147",
          "text": "The calanoid species more frequent in the Pyrenees is Diaptomus cyaneus, species with a relict occurrence in Dalmatia, endorreic and litoral lagoons of the western Mediterranean countries and frequent in the Pyrenees and in the North African Atlas.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Brian Moss, “Lakes, Pools and Other Standing Waters: Some Basic Features of Their Productivity”, in Ecology of Fresh Waters: Man and Medium, Past to Future, 3rd edition, Malden, Mass., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Blackwell Publishing, page 198",
          "text": "In other cases, the basin may be large but the water-supply so low that there is no outflow and water leaves only by evaporation. The catchment-derived water-supply, in evaporating, leaves salts and the basin becomes an endorheic (internally drained) salt lake.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Guadalupe de la Lanza Espino, José Luis García-Calderón, “Historical Summary of the Geology, Climate, Hydrology, Culture, and Natural Resource Utilization in the Basin of Mexico”, in Mark E. Fenn, L. I. de Bauer, Tomás Hernández-Tejeda, editors, Urban Air Pollution and Forests: Resources at Risk in the Mexico City Air Basin (Ecological Studies; 156), New York, N.Y.: Springer-Verlag, →ISSN, page 5",
          "text": "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 [...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Judith García-Rodríguez, Rosaluz Tavera, “Phytoplankton Composition and Biomass in a Shallow Monomictic Tropical Lake”, in Javier Alcocer, S. S. S. [Sudarsana] Sarma, editors, Advances in Mexican Limnology: Basic and Applied Aspects (Hydrobiologia; 467), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 91, column 2",
          "text": "The basin of Lake Zempoala is endorreic. Precipitation and running off from the watershed are the only source of water income whose budget is not balanced: annual precipitation and evaporation are 1200–1500 mm and 1600 mm, respectively [...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Yeqiao Wang, “Remote Sensing of Protected Lands: An Overview”, in Yeqiao Wang, editor, Remote Sensing of Protected Lands (Taylor & Francis Series in Remote Sensing Applications), Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, section 1.4 (Remote Sensing of Frontier Lands), page 13",
          "text": "Tibetan lakes in the endorheic basins serve as a sensitive indicator to regional climate and water cycle variability.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 January–February, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, New Haven, Conn.: Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-04-12, page 46",
          "text": "Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake's neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. [...] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hydrology",
          "hydrology"
        ],
        [
          "basin",
          "basin"
        ],
        [
          "lake",
          "lake"
        ],
        [
          "outflow",
          "outflow#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "external",
          "external"
        ],
        [
          "body",
          "body"
        ],
        [
          "water",
          "water#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "river",
          "river"
        ],
        [
          "ocean",
          "ocean"
        ],
        [
          "losing",
          "lose"
        ],
        [
          "evaporation",
          "evaporation"
        ],
        [
          "seepage",
          "seepage"
        ],
        [
          "ground",
          "ground#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "closed"
        },
        {
          "word": "terminal"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
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      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "hydrology",
        "natural-sciences"
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    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɛndə(ʊ)ˈɹiːɪk/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɛndoʊˈɹiɪk/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/-də/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
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      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "endoreic"
    },
    {
      "word": "endorreic"
    },
    {
      "word": "endorrheic"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "endorreiko"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "bjasscjókavaja",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "бяссцёкавая"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bezottočna",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "безотточна"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "內流"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "nèiliú",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "内流"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "bezodtoký"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "endorheisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "endoreïsch"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "senelflua"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "äravooluta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "sisäinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "endoréique"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "endorreico"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "gaudinari",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "გაუდინარი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "endorheisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "lefolyástalan"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "endoreik"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "endoreico"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "ağynsyz",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "ағынсыз"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "naeryuk yuyeok",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "내륙 유역"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "endorheicus"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "beznoteces"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "endorheisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "endorheisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "endoreïc"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "bezodpływowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "endorreico"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "endoreic"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "besstočnyj",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "бессточный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "endoréicu"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "endoreičan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "endoreična"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "endorreico"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "endorheisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "kapalı"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "bezstíčna",
      "sense": "having no outflow to an external body of water such as a river or ocean, and only losing water through evaporation",
      "word": "безсті́чна"
    }
  ],
  "word": "endorheic"
}

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