tule

[too-lee, too-le]

noun

plural

tules 

1. either of two large bulrushes, Scirpus lacustris or S. acutus, found in California and adjacent regions in inundated lands and marshes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tule¹

1830–40, < Mexican Spanish < Nahuatl tōlin

Example Sentences

Her sudden death has rattled the zoo staff she once dazzled and left a mark on her best friend Tule, who she has been inseparable from since they were cubs.

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Dome-shaped homes covered in tule, called ki, dotted the landscape.

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It teemed with birds, beavers and tule elk, and sustained Yokut tribes who made their homes along the lakeshore and the rivers.

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Boswell’s land, a small portion of the company’s vast croplands, would provide a strategic location for a low-lying forebay to take in floodwaters from the Kings and Tule rivers and pump water into the reservoir, Ennis said.

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The alleged villains are unexpected, here in one of the cradles of the organic food movement: the National Park Service and a slate of environmental organizations that maintain that the herds of cattle that have grazed on the Point Reyes Peninsula for more than 150 years are polluting watersheds and threatening endangered species, including the majestic tule elk that roam the windswept headlands.

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