'Quaking aspen' definitions:
Definition of 'quaking aspen'
(from WordNet)
noun
Old World aspen with a broad much-branched crown; northwestern Europe and Siberia to North Africa [syn: quaking aspen, European quaking aspen, Populus tremula]
Definition of 'Quaking aspen'
From: 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]