endoreic

English

Adjective

endoreic (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of endorheic
   • 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, →ISBN, page 138, column 2:

     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.

   • 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, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 5:

     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 [...].

Anagrams

• recoined

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French endoréique.

Adjective

endoreic m or n (feminine singular endoreică, masculine plural endoreici, feminine and neuter plural endoreice)

1. endorheic

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	endoreic		endoreică		endoreici	endoreice
	definite	endoreicul		endoreica		endoreicii	endoreicele
genitive- dative	indefinite	endoreic		endoreice		endoreici	endoreice
	definite	endoreicului		endoreicei		endoreicilor	endoreicelor