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Quaking
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What's The Definition Of Quaking?
[adj] vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Quaking: quivering | shaking | shaky | shivering | trembling | unsteady Related Terms | Find terms related to Quaking: See Also | Quaking In Webster's Dictionary \Quak"ing\,
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}).
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