Quaking
Quak·ing
Quaking
a. & n.
- a. & n. from Quake, v.
Phrases & Compounds
- Quaking aspen
- 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
- 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.