quaking asp

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quaking asp (plural quaking asps)

  1. The quaking aspen.
    • 1997, B. Franklin Cooling, Fort Donelson's Legacy, page 233:
      Having decimated groves of cedar, quaking asps, weeping willows, poplars, and fruit trees on the last day of January, Alva C. Griest of the Seventy-second Indiana believed he "was doing wrong all the time we were at it."
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