TRIBUTARIES


Meaning of TRIBUTARIES in English

The contributing streams and other watercourses including brooks, rills, and rivulets, extending upstream to the point where water usually begins to flow in a regular channel, with an alveus, or bed, and banks or sides, or to the point where the lines of ordinary high water marks converge, whichever extends the farthest up-gradient.

Environmental engineering English vocabulary.      Английский словарь экологического инжиниринга.