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单词 tule
释义

tulen.

/ˈtuːleɪ/
Forms: Also tula, toolie, tulé, tuley.
Etymology: < Aztec tullin, the final n being dropped by the Spaniards as in Guatemala, Jalapa, etc.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.’
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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).
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