English

Major endorheic basins (in grey, with major endorheic lakes in black)

Adjective

endorheic ‎(not comparable)

1. (of a lake or basin) Internally drained; having no outlet.
   • 1937, Collected Papers - Osborn Zoological Society, Volume 19, Yale University, page 94,

     On the other hand all closed lakes of the kind now being considered must lie in endorheic regions.

   • 1998, Brian Moss, Ecology of Fresh Waters: Man and Medium, Past to Future, Third Edition, Blackwell Publishing, ISBN 978-0-632-03512-0, page 198,

     The catchment-derived water-supply, in evaporating, leaves salts and the basin becomes an endorheic (internally drained) salt lake.

   • 2012, Yeqiao Wang, ed., Remote Sensing of Protected Lands, CRC Press, ISBN 978-1-4398-4187-7, page 318,

     Tibetan lakes in the endorheic basins are dynamic and sensitive to climate change.

   • 2012 January 1, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 46:

     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.

Synonyms

• (internally drained): terminal, closed

Antonyms

• (internally drained): exorheic

Translations

See also

• Endorheic basin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Open and closed lakes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia