| any of several grasses of the genus Briza, having spikelets with slender, drooping stalks. |

quaking grass
any of about 20 species of slender annual or perennial grasses making up the genus Briza (family Poaceae), named for the spikelets of open flower clusters, borne on long stalks, that quiver in any air current
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