Dictionary entry

Quicken tree

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Quick″en tree′ (?). [Probably from quick, and first applied to the aspen or some tree with quivering leaves; cf. G. quickenbaum, quizenbaum, quitschenbaum. Cf. Quitch grass.] (Bot.) The European rowan tree; — called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree.