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• n  a branch that flows into the main stream
• s  (of a stream) flowing into a larger stream
• s  paying tribute
  a tributary colony
• s  tending to bring about; being partly responsible for

• In August 1896, Mason better known among fellow members of the Tagish tribe as "Keish" was traveling with his family along a small tributary of the Yukon River when he .
• In Brazil, it was taken to a docking area that had been constructed by 2,500 workers on the Jari River, an Amazon tributary 250 miles inland.
• While the Yangtze River's Three Gorges get all the attentionand most of the touriststhe so-called Lesser Three Gorges on its nearby tributary, the Daning River, offer more .

• feeder
• confluent
• affluent
• conducive
• contributing
• contributive
• contributory

• distributary

News & Articles

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• Bernie Fowler: Father of Patuxent Recovery
  Fatherhood is a lifelong calling Sandra Olivetti Martin Father to four, grandfather to eight and great-grand­father to seven , retired state senator Bernie Fowler doubles as father of Patuxent River recovery.     That Chesapeake tributary rises and ends in Maryland. If we can’t clean up the Patuxent, says Fowler, what chance does the Bay stand?     So Bernie waded into the river of his youth ...
  June 13, 2013 - Bay Weekly
• Partial cleanup of abandoned Douglas County copper mine estimated at $5 million
  The now-defunct Formosa Mine near Riddle is leaching toxic metals into a tributary of the Umpqua River.
  June 13, 2013 - The Oregonian
• Details: Tarrant Regional Water District v. Herrmann
  This morning Justice Sotomayor delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court in Tarrant Regional Water District v. Herrmann. The petitioner in this case, a Texas state agency responsible for providing water to north-central Texas, sought a water resource permit from the Oklahoma Water Resource Board (the respondents) to take water from a tributary of the [...]
  June 13, 2013 - SCOTUSblog

Quotes

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• Glenn in Rhinelander Daily News
  We used to call it the people's fish,Glenn said. "A lot of people got started fishing with yellow perch, standing on the side of a tributary. You didn't need a lot of expensive equipment."
• John Roberts in San Francisco Chronicle
  Roberts told Solicitor General Paul Clement "at some point the definition of tributary has to have an end" or it would go beyond the intention of Congress.
• Sharman Stone in The Canberra Times
  We've still got Victoria hell bent on building a pipeline out of the Goulburn River, the major tributary to the Murray,Ms Stone told reporters in Canberra. "That pipeline is going to take water, including the environmental flow, across the...