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Southwestern bulrush
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tule
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tule is a plant ( Schoenoplectus acutus ) and a term referring to tule fog , a weather phenomenon of California's Central Valley , as well as the following United States places: Arizona : Tule Desert (Arizona) , in Coconino County Tule Mountains , in Yuma ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tule \Tu"le\, n. [Mex.] (Bot.) A large bulrush ( Scirpus lacustris , and Scirpus Tatora ) growing abundantly on overflowed land in California and elsewhere.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (taxlink Schoenoplectus acutus species noshow=1), a giant freshwater sedge of western North America 2 A type of chinook salmon which spawns in the (w: Columbia River) basin
Usage examples of tule.
They took out all the tule reeds that served as a carpet and they burned them, then they gathered all the cooking baskets and hung them from the rafters.
She tiptoed, she peered, she separated the stalks of the tule reeds and peered.
We ought to find enough flat tule reeds somewhere on this stream to weave me a new pair of slippers.
As the people sleep, all ten of them, the mice scatter punk-wood around and pitch, punkwood and pitch and broken bits of tule reeds.
Now they came to a stream and there were many tule reeds growing along the bank.
THIS COYOTE had come from way up north, and he had never seen slippers made of tule reeds.
So Coyote took off his moccasins and put the tule slippers on his feet.
It was a very large lake, and the shores were covered with tall tule reeds.
Silver Fox then made some tule reeds come by his thinking, and he gave those to Coyote.
Coyote then returned to the corners of the world and tried to drive the sticks of tule into the ground, but they kept bending and breaking.
So Silver Fox took pity on him and gave him another cane of tule to chew on, and he started.
That tule is not nourishing enough for me, what with all the hard work I do for the world!
COYOTE had come from way up north, and he had never seen slippers made of tule reeds.
Silver Fox took pity on him and gave him another cane of tule to chew on, and he started.
He had been wearing his beard in the jawline style of the Tule domain, Dev noted, but patchy stubble darkened his cheeks now.