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tules

/ˈtuːliz/

tules is the plural of tule.

Meaning of tule

Noun

tule (plural tules)

  1. (US) Any of a number of large freshwater sedges of western North America formerly classified in the genus Scirpus, but now mostly as Schoenoplectus
    • 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
  2. A type of chinook salmon which spawns in the Columbia River basin

Words that rhyme with tules

Questions about tules

What is tules the plural of?
Tules is the plural of tule.
How do you pronounce tules?
Tules is pronounced /ˈtuːliz/.

Words near tules in the dictionary

  1. tule shrews
  2. Tulean
  3. Tuleans
  4. Tulelake
  5. Tulendeena
  6. tules
  7. Tuley
  8. Tuleys
  9. tulgey
  10. Tulgheș
  11. Tuli

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