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quaking aspen
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Quaking aspen
(gcide) | Quaking \Quak"ing\,
a. & n. from Quake, v.
[1913 Webster]
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; Briza media and Briza minor are the
smaller kinds.
(b) Rattlesnake grass (Glyceria Canadensis).
[1913 Webster] |
quaking aspen
(wn) | quaking aspen
n 1: Old World aspen with a broad much-branched crown;
northwestern Europe and Siberia to North Africa [syn:
quaking aspen, European quaking aspen, {Populus
tremula}] |
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