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tributary

noun
/ˈtɹɪbjʊtəɹi/

Etymology

PIE word *tréyes From Middle English tributarie (“paying tribute”), from Latin tribūtārius, from tribūtum (“tribute”).

  1. derived from tribūtārius
  2. inherited from tributarie

Definitions

  1. A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water.

  2. A vein which drains into another vein.

    • The great saphenous vein is a tributary of the femoral vein.

  3. A nation, state, or other entity that pays tribute.

    • An earneſt Coniuration from the King, / As England was his faithfull Tributary
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Related to the paying of tribute.

    2. Subordinate

      Subordinate; inferior.

      • to grace his tributary gods

    3. Yielding supplies of any kind

      Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing.

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

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Derived

left tributary, right tributary, tributary load, tributary state

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at tributary. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at tributary. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at tributary

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA