Can a planet of heavy and regular rains or monsoons have little to no surface water?

There is a background planet in this story that is important due to character back story however we never visit it in this book.

It is describe as a mostly jungle planet, with regular heavy rains or monsoons but little to no bodies oceans or large bodies of water.

How feasible is this? What other conditions would need to be added to allow the monsoons without much water surface water?

The planet would have to have been stable long enough for life to have evolved there.

EDIT

The answeres provided gave me the info I needed to do further research. An acer of water evaproates about 10,000 gallons a day. An acer of corn can lose 8,000 gallons a day through evapotranspiration.

Through this I can imagine a world with minimum to no handwavium with these characteristics. So the correct answer goes to @SJuan76. Thanks go out to @JBH and their excellent answer as it gave me the terms I needed to further my search.

http://www.ncga.com/upload/files/documents/pdf/water_movement_in_corn_production.pdf https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/rural-living/81477-how-much-water-evaporates-per.html

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