The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tributary \Trib"u*ta*ry\, n.; pl. Tributaries.
A ruler or state that pays tribute, or a stated sum, to a conquering power, for the purpose of securing peace and protection, or as an acknowledgment of submission, or for the purchase of security.
A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of tributary English)
Usage examples of "tributaries".
With its tributaries extending into every valley in the centre of the landmass, there was no need to hack out and maintain expensive tracks in the jungle.
From where they were, still a hundred thousand kilometres out, the Juliffe and most of its tributaries were smothered in a nebulous red haze.
The only villages we can even see are the ones furthest up the tributaries where the glow peters out.
Then nine teams are to be distributed along the rest of the Juliffe tributaries to appraise the overall status of the population and engage targets of opportunity.
They were complemented by Kiint craft, small blunt ovoids that flew up and down the Juliffe and its myriad tributaries collecting people from the villages and delivering them to Durringham.
Along winding, eighteen-hundred-mile course, Donau--the river of Do' the Great Earth Mother of the Zeiandonii--swelled with the waters more than three hundred tributaries, the drainage of two glacier mountain chains, and acquired a burden of sediment.
T started using it to carry wood, dry dung, and other materials for bi ing that they picked up along the way for the evening fire, and so times they left their pack baskets in the boat after crossing wa There had been several streams of various sizes that had found tl way to the inland sea, and Jondalar knew that many tributaries w cut across their path as they continued their Journey, traveling be the Great Mother River.
She that all the tributaries were carried downstream and that the great was now less full than it had been.
Several tributaries of various sizes, rather large, had flowed into the broad river from both "'l contributing to her prodigious volume downstream.
It had been more than helpful in IP many rivers and smaller tributaries that had flowed into Mother, but they weren't sure if it was worth the trouble it 0 get it through the thick growth of trees.
Where alder dominated near the river, and along the lower valleys of its tributaries, she knew they would be in peaty fen woods if it were summer.
Thence he flowed south for one hundred and thirty leagues, gathering the waters of many tributaries, until with a mighty flood he reached his many mouths and sandy delta in the Bay of Balar.
From Ered Luin flowed the six tributaries of Gelion: Ascar (that was after named Rathl?
Ascar The most northerly of the tributaries of Gelion in Ossiriand (afterwards called Rathl?
Brilthor 'Glittering Torrent', the fourth of the tributaries of Gelion in Ossiriand.