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Webster 1913 Edition
Aspen
Asp′en
(ăs′pĕn)
, Adj.
Of or pertaining to the aspen, or resembling it; made of aspen wood.
Nor
aspen
leaves confess the gentlest breeze. Gay.
Webster 1828 Edition
Aspen
ASP'EN
or ASP,Noun.
A species of the poplar, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air. Its leaves are roundish, smooth, and stand on long slender foot-stalks.
Definition 2024
Aspen
Aspen
See also: aspen
English
Proper noun
Aspen
- A ski-resort town in Colorado.
- A small community in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia.
- A female given name of modern usage, denominated for the aspen tree.
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See also: Aspen
English
Aspen trees
Noun
aspen (plural aspens)
- A kind of poplar tree (genus Populus sect. Populus).
- Above a certain elevation, the aspens gave way to scrubby, gnarled pines.
- 1912, Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage, Chapter 8
- Instead there were the white of aspens, streaks of branch and slender trunk glistening from the green of leaves […] .
- (uncountable) The wood of such a tree.
- She claimed that aspen was the only "proper" material from which make a wicker basket.
Hyponyms
- (poplar tree): Chinese aspen - Populus adenopoda, bigtooth aspen - Populus grandidentata, Japanese aspen - Populus sieboldii, Eurasian aspen - Populus tremula, quaking aspen - Populus tremuloides
Translations
tree of genus Populus sect. Populus
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wood of such a tree