aspen

• IPA^(key): /ˈæspən/

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, John Donne, ‘The Apparition’, Poems (1633):

     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 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.

   • 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 […] .

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, Snape, 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. Second-person plural (ustedes) present subjunctive form of aspar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present subjunctive form of aspar.
3. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of aspar.

aspen

1. definite singular of asp