English Explanatory Dictionary

hyporheic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  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

Word forms

hyporheic

Etymology

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.

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