aspen

• IPA^(key): /ˈæspən/

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From Middle English aspen, corresponding to asp +‎ -en.

aspen (comparative more aspen, superlative most aspen)

1. Pertaining to the asp or aspen tree.
2. (obsolete) Tremulous, trembling.
   • a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “The Apparition”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC:

     And then poore Aspen wretch, neglected thou / Bath'd in a cold quicksilver sweat wilt lye / A veryer ghost than I […].

3. (obsolete) Of a woman's tongue: wagging, gossiping.

From Middle English aspen, from Old English æspen, Old English æspan (combining form), from Old English æspe (“aspen”). More at asp.

aspen (plural aspens)

1. A poplar tree, especially of section Populus sect. Populus, of medium-size trees with thin, straight trunks of a greenish-white color.

   Above a certain elevation, the aspens gave way to scrubby, gnarled pines.

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv:

     ſtaggering like a quiuering Aſpen leafe,
     Fearing the force of Boreas boiſtrous blaſts.

   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

     Instead there were the white of aspens, streaks of branch and slender trunk glistening from the green of leaves […] .

   • 2015 March 30, Justin Gillis, “Climate Change Threatens to Kill Off More Aspen Forests by 2050s, Scientists Say”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 November 2020:

     The beloved aspen forests that shimmer across mountainsides of the American West could be doomed if emissions of greenhouse gases continue at a high level, scientists warned on Monday. […] The new paper analyzed the drought and heat that killed millions of aspens in Colorado and nearby states a decade ago.

2. (uncountable) The wood of such a tree; usually pale, lightweight and soft.

   She claimed that aspen was the only "proper" material from which to make a wicker basket.

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• NAPEs, Panes, Snape, Spean, napes, neaps, panes, peans, snape, sneap, spane, spean

• aspyn, espyn

From aspe (from Old English æspe) + -en.

aspen

1. Made of or pertaining to asp trees.

• English: aspen

• “aspe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2 May 2018.

• aspa

aspen m or f

1. definite masculine singular of asp

aspen

1. inflection of aspar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

aspen

1. definite singular of asp

• espan, senap