ASPEN

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Meaning:

Any of several trees of the genus Populus having leaves on flattened stalks so that they flutter in the lightest wind

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("aspen" is a kind of...):

poplar; poplar tree (any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aspen"):

European quaking aspen; Populus tremula; quaking aspen (Old World aspen with a broad much-branched crown; northwestern Europe and Siberia to North Africa)

American aspen; American quaking aspen; Populus tremuloides (slender aspen native to North America)

big-toothed aspen; bigtooth aspen; bigtoothed aspen; Canadian aspen; large-toothed aspen; large tooth aspen; Populus grandidentata (aspen with a narrow crown; eastern North America)

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