Definitions for quaking aspen
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
quak′ing as′pen(n.)
an aspen, Populus tremuloides, with heart-shaped leaves that tremble in the wind.
Category: Plants
Origin of quaking aspen:
1785–95
Princeton's WordNet
quaking aspen, European quaking aspen, Populus tremula(noun)
Old World aspen with a broad much-branched crown; northwestern Europe and Siberia to North Africa
Wiktionary
quaking aspen(Noun)
Populus tremuloides, the American aspen, so called from its leaves whose flattened petioles cause them to tremble in the breeze.
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