aspen

See also Aspen

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Middle English aspen 'made of aspen wood', from asp 'aspen', from Old English æspe, from Proto-Germanic *aspōn (compare Dutch esp, German Espe, Swedish asp), from Proto-Indo-European *Hosp- (compare Welsh aethnen, Latin abiēs 'fir', Latvian apse, Polish osa, Armenian op'i 'poplar').

Noun

aspen (plural aspens)

1. A kind of poplar tree (genus Populus; section Populus).

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

2. (uncountable) The wood of such a tree.

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

Hyponyms

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

Translations

tree of genus Populus

• Armenian: կաղամախի (hy) (kaġamaxi)
• Catalan: trèmol (ca) m
• Cheyenne: vé'škee'e
• Czech: (general) topol (cs) m, (specific species) osika (cs) f
• Danish: asp (da) c, aspetræ (da) n, esp (da) c, espetræ (da) n
• Dutch: esp m, ratelpopulier m
• Estonian: haab (et)
• Faroese: øsp (fo) f, esp (fo) f
• Finnish: haapa (fi)
• French: tremble (fr) m
• German: Espe (de) f, Zitterpappel (de) f
• Icelandic: ösp (is) f
• Ingrian: haapa
• Italian: pioppo (it) m

• Jèrriais: trembl'ye m
• Latvian: apse (lv) f
• Navajo: tʼiisbáí
• Nogai: актерек
• Old English: æspe (ang)
• Old Norse: ǫsp f
• Polish: osika (pl) f
• Russian: осина (ru) (osína) f
• Scottish Gaelic: critheann (gd) m
• Slovak: (general) topoľ (sk) m, (specific species) osika (sk) f, (botanical)topoľ osikový (sk) f
• Spanish: álamo temblón (es) m
• Swedish: asp (sv) c
• Turkish: titrek kavak (tr)
• Votic: aapa

wood of such a tree

• Estonian: haavapuit (et)
• Faroese: øsp (fo) f
• Finnish: haapa (fi), haapapuu (fi)

• Old Norse: ǫsp f
• Scottish Gaelic: critheann (gd) m

Anagrams

• napes
• neaps
• panes
• peans
• Snape, snape
• sneap

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Swedish

Noun

aspen

1. definite singular of asp