aspen

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To me the aspen is almost a classic tree, and I have met it in so many places that I regard it almost as an old friend.

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  1. noun Any of several trees of the genus Populus having leaves attached by flattened leafstalks so that they flutter readily in the wind.
  2. adjective Of or relating to one of these trees.
  3. adjective Shivering or trembling like the leaves of one of these trees.

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  • The cottonwoods and aspen were at the height of their color Dale drove west from Missoula on I-90 for a few miles and then exited to follow Highway 93 north about sixty miles to Polson and the south end of Flathead Lake. —  AWinterHaunting
  • That honor goes to a tree that my co-workers and I have studied for years: the quaking aspen, a common tree that dapples many mountains of North America. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Ingredients include natural flower remedies such as aspen, mimulus and rock rose.
  • Ten seconds more The outlaw was as pale as death The bandages around his head added to the look of unutterable woe upon his haggard face He trembled like an aspen, and burst into a cold, clammy perspiration, and was breathing heavily Jack glanced up from his watch Time's up!" —  Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys
  • Mariano drank in all that they said with youthful avidity, and the little old lady's mouth rippled responsive, like the aspen leaf to the breeze; while Lucien and Juliet, thus left to themselves, had no other resource than to entertain each other as best they could Then the adieux were said, the voyagers went down to the port, embarked on board their good ship--a trim-built schooner--and set sail with a fair wind I wish I saw them all safe back again!" —  The Pirate City An Algerine Tale
 

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  1. Middle English aspe, from Old English æspe.

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  1. from Middle English aspen, from Anglo-Saxon *æspen (not authenticated; = OFries. espen = Dutch espen = German espen, adjective), from *æsp, tespe, asp, + -en: see asp and -en.
 

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