interior drainage

American  

noun

Physical Geography.

1. a drainage system whose waters do not continue to the ocean either on the surface or underground, but evaporate within the land area.

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Example Sentences

The crisis involves the city’s interior drainage system, a vast 200-mile chain of canals and pipes.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2017

The Sierra Nevada, in fact, may be considered as one of the basin ranges of great size and forming the western wall of the region of interior drainage lying to the eastward.

From North America by Russell, Israel C. (Cook)