aspen

• IPA^(key): /ˈæspən/

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From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), 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 Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old English æspen, Old English æspan (combining form), from Old English æspe (“aspen”). More at asp.

aspen (plural aspens)

1. The asp tree; a kind of poplar tree (genus Populus sect. Populus). A medium-size tree 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 […] .

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

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

• (poplar tree): Chinese aspen - Populus adenopoda, bigtooth aspen - Populus grandidentata, Japanese aspen - Populus sieboldii, Eurasian aspen - Populus tremula, quaking aspen - Populus tremuloides

• 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.

• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• “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