aspenlike
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]aspenlike (comparative more aspenlike, superlative most aspenlike)
- Resembling or characteristic of an aspen tree.
- 1894, Oscar Wilde, letter to Lord Alfred Douglas:
- […] a charming, cultivated woman, with exquisite taste in literature and art; a woman of the most delicate, aspen-like sensibilities and noble generosities […]
- 1908, Arthur Walbridge North, The Mother of California:
- […] a most strange cactus, growing upward to a height of sixty or seventy feet without a branch, of commensurate girth and with an aspenlike bark.