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hyporheic

hyporheic adjective: beneath or alongside the bed of a stream, where water percolates through interstices between the rocks leading to mixing of groundwater and surface water.

Adjective

hyporheic

  1. Beneath or alongside the bed of a stream, where water percolates through interstices between the rocks leading to mixing of groundwater and surface water

Origin of hyporheic

Borrowed from Romanian hiporeic, from Ancient Greek ὑπό (hupó, “below”) + Ancient Greek ῥέος (rhéos, “flow”) + Romanian -ic. Coined by Romanian hydrobiologist Traian Orghidan in 1955.

Questions about hyporheic

What does hyporheic mean?
Hyporheic means beneath or alongside the bed of a stream, where water percolates through interstices between the rocks leading to mixing of groundwater and surface water.
What part of speech is hyporheic?
Hyporheic is an adjective.

Words near hyporheic in the dictionary

  1. hyporetinolemia
  2. hyporexia
  3. hyporexic
  4. hyporhachides
  5. hyporhachis
  6. hyporheic
  7. hyporhithral
  8. hypos
  9. hyposalaemia
  10. hyposalazinic acid
  11. hyposaline

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