tule

noun2

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