aspenlike

adj

aspenlike

adj

Etymology From aspen + -like.

1

Resembling or characteristic of an aspen tree.

  • […] a charming, cultivated woman, with exquisite taste in literature and art; a woman of the most delicate, aspen-like sensibilities and noble generosities […]1894, Oscar Wilde, letter to Lord Alfred Douglas:
  • […] 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.1908, Arthur Walbridge North, The Mother of California:

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