TRIBUTARY

Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river serve to drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater by leading the water out into an ocean or sea.

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tributary

Noun

  1. A river that flows into a larger river or other body of water.
  2. A nation, state, or other entity that pays tribute.

Adjective

  1. Related to the paying of tribute.
  2. subordinate; inferior
  3. Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing.
    The Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.


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