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noun
Any of a number of large freshwater sedges of western North America formerly classified in the genus Scirpus, but now mostly as Schoenoplectus
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
A type of chinook salmon which spawns in the Columbia River basin
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From Spanish tule, from Classical Nahuatl tōllin (“bulrush, sedge”).
