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Pertaining to the asp or aspen tree.
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Tremulous, trembling.
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Of a woman's tongue: wagging, gossiping.
Examples of aspen in a Sentence
The aspen is found in moist places, sometimes at a considerable elevation, 1600 ft.
Sometimes it is compressed laterally, as in the aspen, and to this peculiarity the trembling of the leaves of this tree is due.
If he fell into my hands, when I'd caught him I'd bury him in the ground with an aspen stake to fix him down.
Most of the forest consists of yellow pine, but the spruce, aspen, white birch, bur oak, box elder, red cedar, white elm and cottonwood are among the other varieties found.
P. trepida, or tremuloides, is closely allied to the European aspen, being chiefly distinguished by its more pointed leaves; it is a native of most parts of Canada and the United States, extending northwards as far as Great Slave Lake.
The wood of the aspen is very light and soft, though tough; it is employed by coopers, chiefly for pails and herring-casks; it is also made into butchers' trays, pack-saddles, and various articles for which its lightness recommends it; sabots are also made of it in France, and in medieval days it was valued for arrows, especially for those used in target practice; the bark is used for tanning in northern countries; cattle and deer browse greedily on the young shoots and abundant suckers.
The Siberian larch predominates also in the alpine tracts fringing the plateau on the north, intermingled with the fir, stone-pine, aspen and birch.
Aspen wood makes but indifferent fuel, but charcoal prepared from it is light and friable, and has been employed in gunpowder manufacture.
The aspen is readily propagated either by cuttings or suckers, but has been but little planted of late years in Britain.
P. grandidentata, the large-leaved American aspen, has ovate or roundish leaves deeply and irregularly serrated on the margin.
Among the most remarkable of its separate summits, which rise superbly in a crescent about Aspen, are North Italian Peak (13,225), displaying the red, white and green of Italy's national colours, White Rock Mountain (13,532), Mt.
The principal trees, after the yellow and lodgepole pines, are the red-fir, so-called hemlock and cedar, the Engelmann spruce, the cottonwood and the aspen (Populus tremuloides).
In 1888 the Colorado Midland started from Colorado Springs westward, up the Ute Pass, through the South Park to Leadville, and thence over the continental divide to Aspen and Glenwood Springs.
It is belted by a zone of birch woods, with occasional mountain-ash and aspen, varying in width from about 20 m.
Tree vegetation, which reaches up as high as 6500 and 8150 ft., the latter limit on the north and west, consists of magnificent forests of birch, poplar, aspen, and Coniferae, such as Pinus cembra, Abies sibirica, Larix sibirica, Picea obovata, and so on, though the fir is not found above 2500 ft., while the meadows are abundantly clothed with brightlycoloured, typical assortments of herbaceous plants.
But if they did catch me they'd string me up to an aspen tree, and with all your chivalry just the same.
The ever diligent recording industry said all of the service's arguments had been rejected by Aspen.
A beetle, Saperda populnea, creates a large gall in both willow (Salix spp.) and poplar twigs, including aspen.
The blackthorn, wild fig, trembling aspen, and other ' crossed ' wood are avoided.
A single specimen was beaten from young aspen in a clearing by the ponds at Monkwood Reserve on 22 August 1999.
The secondary woodland includes stands of mature aspen and willow carr.
Dead and fallen aspen should be left undisturbed and protected from deer and rabbit grazing.
Of the 159.5 ha of larger remnant aspen stands only approximately 25 ha. are within present SSSI's or NNR's.
The outstanding wildlife interest includes aspen, juniper, capercaillie, red squirrel, crested tit, blood red slave maker ants and otter.
Between them, these two closely related aspen species cover virtually the entire boreal biome.
Most of my time was spent potting all the rooted aspen cuttings.
Phellinus tremulae is the most serious pathogen of Aspen and may help create the ideal habitat for a range of saproxylic invertebrates.
A sickly pallor overspread his countenance, and he trembled like an aspen.
The 31-year-old supermodel was photographed with a 20-year-old Englishman called Jamie, in the fashionable ski resort of Aspen.
They contain the poplar or aspen (Populus tremuloides), balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera), and paper or canoe birch (Betula papyrifera).
In all three zones occur the chestnut, aspen, willow (especially Salix laurea), hornbeam, birch, alder, juniper and yew; while the mountain ash, hazel, wild plum, wild pear and other wild fruit trees are found at rarer intervals.
The most heavily wooded districts are in the southern and eastern parts (fir, pine, birch, aspen, alder and oak).
The flora of the Hudsonian and the Canadian zone consists largely of white and black spruce, tamarack, canoe-birch, balsam-poplar, balsam-fir, aspen and grey pine.
From Labrador it ranges to the southern shores of Hudson's Bay and to those of the Great Bear Lake, and to the valley of the Yukon and the coast of Alaska, forming with the aspen, the larch, the balsam poplar, the banksian pine, the black and white spruces and the balsam fir, the great subarctic transcontinental forest; and southward it ranges through all the forest region of the Dominion of Canada and the northern states."
A thousand times during that half-hour Rostov cast eager and restless glances over the edge of the wood, with the two scraggy oaks rising above the aspen undergrowth and the gully with its water-worn side and "Uncle's" cap just visible above the bush on his right.
Should Aspen be left alone to inhabit these sparse niches - the remote and craggy woodland refugia?
You can find hand-peeled Aspen wood or hand-crafted chairs made out of many other woods as well.
Slower growing trees that still fall in the fast-growing category are the tulip poplar, which makes flowers that look sort of like tulips in the late spring, Norway spruce, autumn purple ash and the quaking aspen.
The BOODA Dome box is made by Aspen and comes in several colors and versions, including one without the steps.
Notably, however, Edmunds only compared high-priced hybrids like the Cadillac Escalade and the Chrysler Aspen; both with price tags over $50,000.
Aspen Log is based in Colorado which is the center of American-made aspen log furniture.
Aspen logs are also used to make Southwestern style lamps.
The Aspen wood used to make Aspen log lamps is left natural or lightly stained with clear a varnish applied to the finish.
Those who want to ski in the lap of luxury favor resorts such as Aspen, Vail and Beaver Creek.
While it is famous for its skiing celebrities, Aspen is also known for its superb ski instruction.
In 1978, while living in Aspen, Giese decided to apply these concepts to ski boots.His goal was to develop a boot that allowed ankle flexion without distorting the shape of the boot shell.
If you are seeking out the best Colorado ski resorts, Aspen Colorado is a skier's dream come true.
Like most of the popular Colorado ski areas, Aspen's history took shape during the mining era.
In fact, many of Aspen's most impressive Victorian buildings, such as the Hotel Jerome and the Wheeler Opera House were built during this period.
In 1893, silver was demonetized, and Aspen's economy suffered.