tule
English

A stand of tules.
Etymology
From Spanish tule, from Classical Nahuatl tōllin (“bulrush, sedge”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtuːli/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -uːli
Noun
tule (plural tules)
- (US) Any of a number of large freshwater sedges of western North America formerly classified in the genus Scirpus, but now mostly as Schoenoplectus
- 1964, John Hendrix, If I Can Do It Horseback: A Cow-Country Sketchbook, page 40:
- 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.
- A type of chinook salmon which spawns in the Columbia River basin
Synonyms
- (sedge): common tule, hardstem tule, tule rush, hardstem bulrush, viscid bulrush
Derived terms
- tule elk (Cervus canadensis nannodes)
- tule fog
- tule shrew
- in the tules
Estonian
Finnish
Verb
tule
Anagrams
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative forms
- 𑀢𑀼𑀮𑁂 (Brahmi script)
- तुले (Devanagari script)
- তুলে (Bengali script)
- තුලෙ (Sinhalese script)
- တုလေ (Burmese script)
- ตุเล (Thai script)
- ᨲᩩᩃᩮ (Tai Tham script)
- ຕຸເລ (Lao script)
- តុលេ (Khmer script)
- 𑄖𑄪𑄣𑄬 (Chakma script)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtu.lɛ/
- Rhymes: -ulɛ
- Syllabification: tu‧le
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl tōllin (“bulrush, sedge”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtule/ [ˈt̪u.le]
- Rhymes: -ule
- Syllabification: tu‧le
Descendants
- English: tule
Further reading
- “tule”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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