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Tule

//ˈtuːli// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of a number of large freshwater sedges of western North America formerly classified in the genus Scirpus, but now mostly as Schoenoplectus US

    "This consisted of a two-room house built of chittim poles, with no floor, a thatched roof of tules, and a windbreak of buffalo and cowhides to the north of it."

  2. 2
    A type of chinook salmon which spawns in the Columbia River basin

Etymology

From Spanish tule, from Classical Nahuatl tōllin (“bulrush, sedge”).

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