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quaking asp(en U.S.
Also quakenasp.
The North American aspen, Populus tremuloides, a tall tree belonging to the family Salicaceæ; also, the soft white wood of this tree.
1822J. Fowler Jrnl. 1 June (1898) 143 The timber on the mountains Heare is Pitch Pine Spruce Pine Hemlock and quakenasp. 1825W. H. Ashley in H. C. Dale Ashley-Smith Explorations (1918) 152 This range of mountains is..closely timbered with pine, cedar, quaking-asp. 1845J. Palmer Jrnl. 30 July in Jrnl. Trav. Rocky Mts. (1847) 36 Occasionally there is a grove of quaking aspen. 1848[see asp1 1]. 1878J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xi. 168 The town is in a grove of quaking asp. 1902O. Wister Virginian iv. 55 They took us..through a thicket of quaking asps. 1905N.Y. Even. Post 2 Sept. (Sat. Suppl.) 1/6 Have seen quakenasp groves on the summer range. 1919E. Hough Sagebrusher 4 A few quaking asps standing near the cabin door likewise gave motion and brightness to the scene. 1947J. J. Rowlands Cache Lake Country 19 Up on the sandy ridge the quaking aspen grows. 1963S. A. Graham et al. Aspens i. 2 Two species of aspen trees are indigenous to..the so-called Lake States. These are the trembling (quaking) aspen..and the bigtooth (large-toothed) aspen. |