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Tribulus cistoides

Tribulus cistoides, Jamaican feverplant or puncture vine, is a prostrate Zygophyllaceae herb native from Cape Verde and Eritrea to Mozambique and the Pacific, with large yellow flowers and spiny burr fruits, used as medicine and food.

Tribulus terrestris

Tribulus terrestris, or puncture vine, is a spiny-fruited herb used in traditional Chinese and Indian medicine and sold as a supplement, though trials show it does not raise testosterone.

Tribuna

Tribuna is a Romanian cultural magazine published in Cluj-Napoca under the Cluj County Council, tracing its lineage to a newspaper founded at Sibiu in 1884 by Ioan Slavici.

Tribunal

Tribunal: a specialized adjudicative body, often an administrative tribunal, deciding disputes or reviewing government decisions outside ordinary courts. Key examples: French Conseil d'État (1799), US federal agencies, UK tribunal system, Australia's Administrative Review Tribunal (2024).

Tribunal Justice

Tribunal Justice is a 2023 American reality courtroom series created by Judy Sheindlin, streaming on Amazon Freevee and Prime Video, in which judges Patricia DiMango, Tanya Acker, and Adam Levy adjudicate real small-claims cases by majority vote.

Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014

The Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014 is an Act of the Scottish Parliament, passed in 2014, that establishes the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland and the Upper Tribunal for Scotland.

Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act 1921

Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act 1921 (1921 c. 7), UK statute giving court powers to public inquiry tribunals after a resolution of both Houses; origin in the Ministry of Munitions inquiry, reviewed by the Salmon Commission, repealed by the Inquiries Act 2005.

Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007

UK Act of Parliament (2007 c. 15, Royal Assent 19 July 2007) implementing the Leggatt review; created the unified two-tier First-tier and Upper Tribunal system under a Senior President of Tribunals and reformed enforcement, debt relief, judicial appointments, and judicial review.

Tribune

Roman tribune: a title for several offices, chiefly the ten annually elected tribunes of the plebs (tribuni plebis), created after the 494 BC secession, who wielded the intercessio veto, presided over the plebeian assembly, and passed plebiscites, plus military tribunes.

Tribune Broadcasting

Tribune Broadcasting was the broadcasting arm of the Chicago-based Tribune Company and later Tribune Media, known for WGN-TV, WPIX, and KTLA, with its stations passing to Nexstar Media Group in 2019.

Tributary

Tributary: a freshwater stream feeding a larger stream or river, joining it at a confluence. Ranked by Strahler stream order; small tributaries hold over 90% of US stream length.

Tributary state

Tributary state: a polity acknowledging a stronger power's superiority through tribute, envoys, and investiture while keeping internal autonomy; exemplified by the Chinese tribute system (Son of Heaven, Ming tribute trade) and Ottoman tributaries, and debated via the Fairbank paradigm.

Tributary system of China

The tributary system of China, also known as the Chinese tributary system, was imperial China's framework for foreign relations, in which neighbors sent tribute missions.

Tribute

Tribute (Latin tributum): wealth paid by one state or ruler to another to acknowledge submission or buy peace or protection, seen in Achaemenid satrapies, the Delian League, and the East Asian tribute system.

Tribute (Ozzy Osbourne album)

Tribute (1987) is Ozzy Osbourne's live double album honoring guitarist Randy Rhoads, who died in 1982. Recorded on the Blizzard of Ozz tour (Cleveland, May 11, 1981), it reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and was certified 2x Platinum.

Tribute Bearers Painting

The Tribute Bearers Painting (职贡图) is a Chinese painted roll of foreign tribute envoys, made for the Liang dynasty by Emperor Yuan of Liang, Xiao Yi.

Tribute in Light

Tribute in Light, also called Towers of Light, is an annual New York public art installation of two beams from 88 7,000-watt xenon bulbs honoring 9/11 victims, first shown March 11, 2002, and monitored to protect migrating birds.

Tribute missions of the Five Kings of Wa

The tribute missions of the Five Kings of Wa were embassies sent by five successive Japanese rulers to the Liu-Song dynasty in China between 421 and 478.

Tribute of Jehu

The Tribute of Jehu was the submission of King Jehu of Israel to Shalmaneser III of Assyria in 841 BC, depicted on the Black Obelisk.

Tribute of Menahem

The Tribute of Menahem was the payment of 1,000 talents of silver by Menahem of Israel to the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III, generally dated to 738 BC.

Tribute of Yu

The Tribute of Yu (禹贡) is a chapter of the Shangshu describing how Yu the Great divided the realm into nine provinces, each paying tribute by its land and people.

Tribute Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc.

Tribute Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc., formerly Stellar International Inc., was a Canadian specialty pharmaceutical company in Milton, Ontario that licensed and promoted established healthcare products until its 2016 merger into Aralez Pharmaceuticals.

Tribute system of the Indies

The tribute system of the Indies (Tributo indígena) was the head tax indigenous households of Spanish America owed the Spanish Crown from the sixteenth century.

Tributyl phosphate

Tributyl phosphate is a colorless organophosphate ester used as a flame retardant, plasticizer, and antifoaming agent, and as the extractant in the PUREX process for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel.

Tributylphosphine

Tributylphosphine (PBu3), also called tri-n-butylphosphine, is a pyrophoric tertiary phosphine with formula C12H27P, a garlic-smelling liquid used as a reductant, nucleophilic organocatalyst, and standard ligand in cobalt hydroformylation catalysts.

Tributyltin chloride

Tributyltin chloride is a colorless liquid organotin compound used as a fungicide, a PVC heat stabilizer, and a synthetic reagent, and is an endocrine disruptor.

Tributyltin hydride

Tributyltin hydride, also written tri-n-butyltin hydride (Bu3SnH), is an organotin compound used in organic synthesis to replace halogens with hydrogen and as the hydrogen donor in the Barton–McCombie deoxygenation of alcohols, though it is highly toxic.

TRIC channel

TRIC (trimeric intracellular cation) channels, isoforms TRIC-A and TRIC-B, are trimeric intracellular K+-permeable counter-ion channels in SR/ER membranes that support calcium release; unrelated to the TRiC/CCT chaperonin.

TriCal Soil Solutions

TriCal Soil Solutions is a Gilroy, California agricultural soil management company providing pre-plant fumigation for specialty crops; part of TriCal Group, it acquired the TELONE brand from Dow in 2025.

Tricalcium phosphate

Tricalcium phosphate (Ca₃(PO₄)₂) is an inorganic calcium salt, known as bone phosphate of lime, used to fill bone defects and as the food additive E341(iii).