| quaking | <botany> From Quake, Quaking aspen 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. Rattlesnake grass (Glyceria Canadensis). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| mice, quaking | Mice homozygous for the mutant autosomal recessive gene, quaking (qk), associated with disorder in myelin formation and manifested by axial tremors. (12 Dec 1998) |
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