GC: adj

CT: The vast majority of the precipitation falling onto the land surface will eventually find its way back to the oceans via rivers, lakes or wetlands, or else be evaporated or transpired back into the atmosphere. There is one class of water-bodies, however, for which this journey is terminated prior to its surface water reaching the oceans. Such water-bodies exist in closed or endorheic watersheds, which contain rivers or lakes that do not drain to the oceans. This interruption of surface water flow results from a balance between inputs (precipitation + surface flows) and outputs (evaporation and seepage). Lakes in endorheic watersheds are often called “terminal ” or sink lakes.

S: http://www.unep.or.jp/ietc/publications/short_series/lakereservoirs-2/10.asp (last access: 12 February 2015)

N: 1. International Scientific Vocabulary end- + -rheic, reic (from Greek rhein to flow + International Scientific Vocabulary -ic): relating to or characterized by endorheism.
2. Pertaining to areal drainage into a basin which has no outlet to the sea or the ocean.

S: 1. http://useful_english.enacademic.com/202915/endorheic (last access: 12 February 2015). 2. GDT.

OV: endoreic

S: MW – http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/endorheic (last access: 12 February 2015)

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CR: exorheic