tributary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++trib·u·ta·ry /ˈtrɪbjətəri $ -teri/ noun (plural tributaries) [countable] PGa stream or river that flows into a larger river 〔河流的〕支流
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tributary• I was on Lyne Water at the time, a tributary of the River Tweed.• Fed by different tributaries, as Don F6lix was saying before when he was waxing poetic.• They started in small workshops in the upper course valleys of the River Don and its tributaries, such as the River Sheaf.• Dace hard to find, even the Llynfi tributary at Glasbury is giving little.• Allen Water, a major tributary of the South Tyne, offered perfect dry fly fishing.• The principal river systems and their major tributaries are described below.• Settlement was concentrated in fishing villages on the tributaries of the Snake, Clearwater and Salmon Rivers.trib·u·ta·ry nounChineseSyllable
river Corpus a flows into stream river larger a or that
tributary
trib‧u‧ta‧ry /ˈtrɪbjətəri, ˈtrɪbjʊtəri $ -teri/
noun (plural tributaries) [countable]
a stream or river that flows into a larger river
▪ river a line of water that flows into the sea: They crossed the river by ferry. | the River Tweed | the Yangtze river
▪tributary a stream or river that flows into a larger river: The River Trombetas is a tributary of the River Amazon.
▪estuary the wide part of a river where it goes into the sea: plans to build a big new airport on the Thames estuary
▪canal a long passage dug into the ground and filled with water, either for boats to travel along, or to take water to a place: Venice’s famous canals | a canal boat
▪delta an area of low land where a river spreads into many smaller rivers near the sea: the Nile delta
trib‧u‧ta‧ry /ˈtrɪbjətəri, ˈtrɪbjʊtəri $ -teri/
noun (plural tributaries) [countable]a stream or river that flows into a larger river
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