Usually means: Rivers that flow into larger ones.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. tributaries: Merriam-Webster
  2. tributaries: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tributaries: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tributaries: Vocabulary.com
  5. Tributaries, tributaries: Wordnik
  6. tributaries: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tributaries: Wiktionary
  8. tributaries: Dictionary.com
  9. tributaries: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Tributaries: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Tributaries: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Tributaries: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. tributaries: FreeDictionary.org
  14. tributaries: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tributaries: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tributaries: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tributaries: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tributary)

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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