ASPEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aspen mean? 

• ASPEN (noun)
  The noun ASPEN has 1 sense:

1. any of several trees of the genus Populus having leaves on flattened stalks so that they flutter in the lightest wind

  Familiarity information: ASPEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASPEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several trees of the genus Populus having leaves on flattened stalks so that they flutter in the lightest wind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("aspen" is a kind of...):

poplar; poplar tree (any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aspen"):

European quaking aspen; Populus tremula; quaking aspen (Old World aspen with a broad much-branched crown; northwestern Europe and Siberia to North Africa)

American aspen; American quaking aspen; Populus tremuloides (slender aspen native to North America)

big-toothed aspen; bigtooth aspen; bigtoothed aspen; Canadian aspen; large-toothed aspen; large tooth aspen; Populus grandidentata (aspen with a narrow crown; eastern North America)

 Context examples 

When he again lifted the lid off Lucy's coffin we all looked—Arthur trembling like an aspen—and saw that the body lay there in all its death-beauty.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The willows and aspens were bursting out in young buds.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)