English-French translations for tributary

• affluent
  La pollution d' un affluent du Danube et du fleuve lui-même, survenu ces jours-ci, est à cet égard édifiant, Monsieur le Président. What has happened over the past few days with the pollution of the Danube and its tributary has been instructive.
• tributaire

Definition of tributary

• A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water
• Related to the paying of tribute
• Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing

Examples

• The Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.

Related words

• attributable
• distributary
• distributable
• attributable fraction