单词 | tule |
释义 | tulen. U.S. Either of two species of bulrush ( Scirpus lacustris var. occidentalis, and S. Tatora) abundant in low lands along riversides in California; hence, a thicket of this, or a flat tract of land in which it grows. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > specific plants briery1552 mushroom earth1731 tule1837 native bush1853 thornveld1878 fellfield1909 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > bulrush or club-rush bulrushc1440 holrushc1440 glagol1480 cat's tail1548 reedmace1548 Typha1548 sun's brow1567 marsh beetle1578 marsh pestle1578 mat-rush1578 pole rush1578 water torch1578 water cat's-tail1597 ditch-down1611 doda1661 club-rush1677 deer-hair1777 club-grass1787 draw-ling1795 raupo1823 tule1837 boulder1847 blackheads1850 cat-o'-nine-tails1858 flax-tail1861 bull-sedge1879 mace reed1901 totora1936 1837 P. L. Edwards Diary 20 July (1932) 26 Driving her along the margin of a bulrush or Tule pond she turned about. 1845 J. C. Frémont Rep. Exploring Exped. Rocky Mts. 252 They..live principally on acorns and roots of the tulé, of which also their huts are made. 1850 W. R. Ryan Personal Adventures Calif. I. 298 The Indians of the party were despatched to hunt up the banks of the river for toolies. 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey through Texas iii. 149 Windowless cabins of stakes, plastered with mud and roofed with river-grass or ‘tula’. 1882 Harper's Mag. Nov. 876 The tules or rushes rise high above our heads, and..are infested with a dangerous breed of wild hogs. 1892 Outing Jan. 329/2 Arriving at a small patch of tuleys about the middle of the lake. 1893 A. F. Battelle in Chicago Advance 2 Feb. Because of the tall rushes that grow there the land is called the tule. The tule is always low and level. 1894 O. Wister in Harper's Mag. Sept. 520 That dug-out with side-thatch and roofing of tule. Compounds C1. attributive, as tule-farm, tule hut, tule land, tule marsh, tule root, tule swamp. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > with reeds reesk1458 juncary1613 sag-bed1672 tule marsh1850 tule swamp1883 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > bulrush or club-rush > parts of mat reed1578 tule root1890 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > tule farm tule-farm1891 1850 B. Taylor Eldorado I. vii. 73 The hazy air, made more dense by the smoke of the burning tulé marshes. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 2 Across the cornlands and thick tule swamps of Sacramento Valley. 1890 A. C. Gunter Miss Nobody iv The baked leaves of century plant, acorns, and tule roots. 1891 A. Welcker Tales Wild West 64 A cabin on a swampy tule farm. C2. tule fog n. U.S. fog over low-lying ground. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [noun] > thick mist or fog > other types of fog petty-fog1641 radiation fog1857 tule fog1900 upslope fog1941 1900 Monthly Weather Rev. 1899 (U.S.) 27 536/2 Connected with this pressure distribution was the prevalence of tule fog in the great valleys of California... This ground or tule fog was so dense as to seriously inconvenience farming operations. 1934 S. E. White Folded Hills 340 A tule fog lay thick over the bottomlands. 1980 M. G. Eberhart Casa Madrone vi. 81 The evening breeze freshened, yet was still moist... Scott said..‘The tule fog is coming in.’ Categories » tule wren n. a kind of marsh wren ( Telmatodytes or Cistothorus palustris, variant paludicola) which frequents the tules of California. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1837 |
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