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English
Etymology
From English crypto- (prefix meaning ‘hidden’) + Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow, gush, stream”) + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining’ to forming adjectives).
Adjective
cryptorheic (not comparable)
- (hydrology, of a basin or lake) Draining through invisible, subterranean outflows.
- Coordinate terms: endorheic, exorheic
1973, W. Manser, New Guinea Barrier Reefs, page 171: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.
1998, David P. Olson, Freshwater Biodiversity of Latin America and the Caribbean, page 35: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.
2020, JA León-Borges, F Viveros-Jiménez, A. E. Rodre/guez-Mata, M.A. Lizardi-Jiménez, “Hydrocarbon contamination patterns in the cenotes of the Mexican caribbean: the application of principal component analysis”, in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, volume 105:One of these is the cryptorheic basin (hidden river) in the Yucatan State, north of Quintana Roo.
- (medicine, obsolete) Pertaining to an unspecified or unidentified discharge or secretion.