Quaking
Quaking , adjective and noun
a. & n. from Quake, v.
Collocations (3)
Quaking aspen (Botany) , 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 (Botany) , (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).