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Definition of Affluents
1. affluent [n] - See also: affluent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affluents
Literary usage of Affluents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals by Auguste Chauveau (1887)
"1 The affluents of the thoracic duct.— The lymphatic branches which enter the
... The affluents the thoracic duct receives on its course, proceed from the ..."
2. America and the West Indies: Geographically Described by George Long, George Tucker, George Richardson Porter, Wilhelm Wittich (1845)
"The River Orinoco and its affluents. The Llanos and the Wooded Plains. 14. ...
The Northern Plains and the Northern affluents of the Rio Amazonas. 16. ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Its principal affluents are the Adler, l < r and Eger, then west, and afterwards
north-west through Bohemia, and then and, mort important of all, ..."
4. La Plata, the Argentine Confederation and Paraguay: Being a Narrative of the by Thomas Jefferson Page (1859)
"affluents of the Paraguay.—Entor the Territory of Paraguay. ... for determining
the characteristics of the waters of the eastern and western affluents. ..."
5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1900)
"EXPLORATION OF THE BERMEJO RIVER AND ITS affluents, ARGENTINE REPUBLIC."
THE expedition started in two boats, each 27 feet long by 7 feet beam by 3 feet ..."
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