Meaning of cryptorheic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Draining through invisible, subterranean outflows.
   not-comparable
2. Pertaining to an unspecified or unidentified discharge or secretion.
   not-comparable, obsolete

Examples

“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.”

“One of these is the cryptorheic basin (hidden river) in the Yucatan State, north of Quintana Roo.”

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