tule
noun/ˈtuːli/
Etymology From Spanish tule, from Classical Nahuatl tōllin (“bulrush, sedge”).
1
US Any of a number of large freshwater sedges of western North America formerly classified in the genus Scirpus, but now mostly as Schoenoplectus
- 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.1964, John Hendrix, If I Can Do It Horseback: A Cow-Country Sketchbook, page 40:
2
A type of chinook salmon which spawns in the Columbia River basin
- Synonyms
- common tule, hardstem tule, tule rush, hardstem bulrush, viscid bulrush
- Derived terms
- in the tules, tule elk, tule fog, tule perch, tule shrew