Usually means: Stream feeding into larger river.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. tributary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tributary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tributary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tributary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tributary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tributary, tributary: Wordnik
  7. tributary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tributary: Wiktionary
  9. tributary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tributary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tributary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tributary: Dictionary.com
  13. tributary (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tributary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tributary (disambiguation), Tributary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tributary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tributary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tributary: Rhymezone
  19. Tributary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tributary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tributary: Free Dictionary
  22. tributary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tributary: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tributary (political), tributary: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tributary (political), tributary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tributary: Medical dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Water-Science Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (hydrology) A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water.
noun:  (anatomy) A vein which drains into another vein.
noun:  A nation, state, or other entity that pays tribute.
adjective:  Related to the paying of tribute.
adjective:  Subordinate; inferior.
adjective:  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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