tributary
IPA: trˈɪbjʌtɛri
noun
- (hydrology) A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water.
- (anatomy) A vein which drains into another vein.
- A nation, state, or other entity that pays tribute.
adjective
- Related to the paying of tribute.
- subordinate; inferior
- Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing.
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Examples of "tributary" in Sentences
- It is a tributary of the Awash River.
- The Beck is a tributary of the River Wensum.
- The Bogan is a tributary of the Darling River.
- The Macquarie is a tributary of the Darling River.
- It is the northernmost tributary of the Darling River.
- A major tributary of the River Crouch is the River Roach.
- The Eel River is a tributary of the Wabash River in Indiana.
- The 'Embarrass River' of Wisconsin is a tributary of the Wolf River.
- Gironde, so that it can scarce be called a tributary of that wide water.
- The River Poulter is a tributary river of the River Idle in Nottinghamshire.
- From Wikipedia: A tributary is a stream or river which flows into a main stem (or parent) river.
- Although the Angara is five times as large as the Yenisei, it is called a tributary of the latter.
- Assyria (compare Ho 7: 11), as Israel lately had done (2Ki 17: 4), after having revolted from Assyria, to whom they had been tributary from the times of Menahem (2Ki 15: 19).
- Some still refer to this archipelago by its original name, the Ryukyu Islands, a kingdom that maintained so-called tributary relationships with China and Japan hundreds of years ago.
- After due deliberation we decided that the best place to ford was a short distance above the junction of a tributary from the other side and opposite a sandbar which divided the river.
- In the spring and fall, bass tend to chase baitfish more actively, and whenever you encounter any type of surface activity, especially in tributary creeks, you're usually close to bass.
- It is a small town of about two thousand inhabitants, crowded up against the mountains, at the end of a little valley through which runs a mountain stream of the same name tributary to the Rio Grande.
- The fourth side of the enceinte stands on a solid rock, above the little river that loses itself in the flat-lands bordering the Gironde, so that it can scarce be called a tributary of that wide water.
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