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tule.

Any of a number of large freshwater sedges of western North America formerly classified in the genus Scirpus, but now mostly as Schoenoplectus

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noun/ˈtuːli/
  1. Any of a number of large freshwater sedges of western North America formerly classified in the genus Scirpus, but now mostly as Schoenoplectus

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  2. A type of chinook salmon which spawns in the Columbia River basin

Where this word comes from

From Spanish tule, from Classical Nahuatl tōllin (“bulrush, sedge”).

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