tule
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of tule
1830–40, < Mexican Spanish < Nahuatl tōlin
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This tule fog upended that trend, thanks to the exceptional fall weather conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
Then, for years, tule fog seemed to form less often.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
On Thanksgiving Day, parts of Kern County also experienced tule fog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
We take a look at the source of dense tule fog and the factors that are causing people in California’s great Central Valley to see a little less of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025
On all sides tremendous tule swamps present themselves, which can be very miry in wet years.
From Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 by Cook, Sherburne Friend
“This looks like the Mojave Desert, and it used to be tules and elk,” Ennis said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025
The Central Valley historically had about 4 million acres of wetlands and riparian areas, forming a vast watery mosaic of marshes, vernal pools, rivers in braided channels and lakes fringed with tules and forests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
As a girl, McDowell enjoyed spending summer days at the river, where she waded, played among the tules and admired the tadpoles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2023
“We have one area in the entire state of California that we know we can still be farming 150 years from now,” he says, “and they want to plant tules there.”
From Scientific American ● Jun. 7, 2022
Behind the school a high board fence separated girlside from boyside, and the back of the play yard was bounded by a slough of standing water in which tall tules and even cattails grew.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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