aspenlike

English

Etymology

aspen +‎ -like

Adjective

aspenlike (comparative more aspenlike, superlative most aspenlike)

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