1. (of a stream) flowing into a larger stream 
2. Paying tribute
   "a tributary colony" 
3. Tending to bring about; being partly responsible for
   - conducive, contributing, contributive, contributory

1. A branch that flows into the main stream
   - feeder, confluent, affluent

Derived forms: tributaries

See also: causative, obligated, secondary

Type of: branch

Antonym: distributary

Encyclopedia: Tributary

• hydraulic transmission
• hydraulic transmission system
• hydraulically
• hydraulicly
• hydraulics
• hydrazine
• hydrazo group
• hydrazo radical
• hydrazoic acid
• hydrazoite
• hydremia
• hydric
• hydride
• hydrilla
• Hydrilla verticillata
• hydriodic acid
• hydro
• Hydrobates
• Hydrobates pelagicus
• Hydrobatidae
• hydrobromic acid
• hydrocarbon
• hydrocele
• hydrocephalic
• hydrocephalus