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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 quotations examples
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
A type of chinook salmon which spawns in the Columbia River basin examples