quaking asp en · NOUN
Meanings
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The quaking aspen.
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."
1997, B. Franklin Cooling, Fort Donelson's Legacy, page 233:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| quaking-asp | alternative | lexicographic | |
| quaking asps | Number=Plur | lexicographic |