Category:Quaking

Quak"ing,

Defn: a. & n. from quake, v. Quaking aspen (bot.), an american Species of poplar (populus tremuloides), the leaves of which tremble In the lightest breeze. It much resembles the european aspen. See Aspen. -- quaking bog, a bog of forming peat so saturated with water that It shakes when trodden upon. -- quaking grass. (bot.) (a) one of several grasses of the genus Briza, having slender-stalked and pendulous ovate spikelets, which Quake and rattle in the wind. Briza maxima is the large quaking Grass; b. media and b. minor are the smaller kinds. (b) rattlesnake Grass (glyceria canadensis).