⚖️ A weight unit 🌿 A mountain plant

tola

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A low bush that grows in the high Andes and whose dry stems are used for fuel

noun

: tola

The villagers collected tola to keep their homes warm during the cold Andean nights.

Examples

In the high mountains, tola is an important source of fuel for cooking and heating.
The landscape was dotted with patches of tola growing close to the rocky ground.
The tola is commonly found in the high Andes.
Many locals use tolas for fuel during the cold nights.
The villagers collected tola to keep their homes warm during the cold Andean nights.
In the high mountains, tola is an important source of fuel for cooking and heating.
The landscape in the high Andes is often characterized by the presence of tola shrubs.

Surface Forms

tola singular

tolas plural

Etymology

Tola comes from the Quechua and Aymara languages of the Andes, where it named a low, cushionlike shrub that people gather and often burn as fuel. So tola still means that small plant and the dried stems used for cooking and heating in high mountain areas.