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Answer for the clue "Hoity-toity weed-legal ski resort ", 5 letters:
aspen

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Word definitions for aspen in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from adjective or genitive form of Old English æspe "aspen tree, white poplar," from Proto-Germanic *aspo- (cognates: Old Norse ösp , Middle Dutch espe , Old High German aspa , German Espe ), from PIE *apsa "aspen" (cognates: Lithuanian opuse ...

Usage examples of aspen.

The mist became a light, steady rain, and as Ace rode along, a soft patter filled the stillness of aspen and pine.

They were in a sparse stand of trees, pines and aspens, and as far as he could tell, he and Akee were alone.

Horsethief Shorty and that Carl Montana and the state engineer, Nelson Bookman, all sitting around a campfire up by the Little Baldy Bear Lakes, roasting miniature Joe Mondragons skewered like hot dogs on aspen twigs over their campfire.

On either side of them, in the Curandero Valley, aspen trees were a lovely buttery yellow, shivering in the Indian Summer breezes.

He muttered some Portuguese fugacities at Paul now off to Aspen with some boy toys on a free all expenses paid trip with a video production company.

The heavy brown barks of oak, beech, walnut, apple, and maple were intermixed with supple, straight, thin-barked willow, birch, hornbeam, aspen, and the high brush of alder and hazelnut.

It was a piece of aspen, some eighteen inches or more in length, and it was inscribed with Ogham characters.

Demott pointed up Cache Creek, past the clusters of white-barked aspens, past the stately forest of ponderosa, into the dark green wilderness of firs.

The White or Aspen Poplar is a common tree, and contains active principles termed Populin and Salicin, both of which are tonic.

The great clone groves of aspen covering the subalpine hillsides had gone golden earlier that week and because it had been a wet, warm summer, the leaves were a perfect yellow-gold, shimmering against the blue-vaulted sky and filling the hillsides and valleys below them with a constantly dancing light.

But, of course, when they turned off the pavement of Navajo Route 32 and jolted down the road past the old Crystal trading post and up the crooked tracks into the aspen grove where Barbone had built his hogan, they discovered that Hosteen Barbone was not at home.

He let her set her own pace and even brouse some aspen leaves along the way.

A swirl of rusty aspen leaves blew down, clinging momentarily to the homespun of their breeches and the light wool of their stockings.

But as for the wains of the Markmen, they were stoutly framed of ashtree with panels of aspen, and they were broad-wheeled so that they might go over rough and smooth.

She pushed out her lower jaw and stared up through the canopy of birch, aspen, and popple, the deeper green of pine and spruce.