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Briza

Briza is a genus of annual and perennial plants in the grass family, native to northern temperate regions of Eurasia, North Africa, and certain islands in the Atlantic.

The group is generally referred to as the quaking grasses because the flowers and seedheads shake on their stalks in the slightest breeze. Some of its members are grown as ornamental plants.

Briza species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Coleophora lixella.

Species
  1. Briza humilis M.Bieb. - from Albania to Iran
  2. Briza marcowiczii Woronow - Turkey, Caucasus
  3. Briza maxima L. - Mediterranean, Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands; naturalized in parts of Asia, Africa, Australia, the Americas, and certain oceanic islands
  4. Briza media L. - Europe, Asia, North Africa, Azores, Canary Islands; naturalized in New Zealand and parts of North America
  5. Briza minor L. - from Azores + Canary Islands to Iran; naturalized in parts of Asia, Africa, Australia, the Americas, and certain oceanic islands
formerly included

over 100 species now considered as better suited to other genera: Agrostis Airopsis Chascolytrum Desmazeria Desmostachya Distichlis Eragrostis Glyceria Halopyrum Neesiochloa Poa Tribolium Trisetum Uniola

Bříza (Litoměřice District)

Bříza is a village and municipality ( obec) in Litoměřice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic.

The municipality covers an area of , and has a population of 406 (as at 31 December 2007).

Bříza lies approximately south of Litoměřice, south of Ústí nad Labem, and north-west of Prague.

Usage examples of "briza".

Flanking her in their places of honor were her three daughters, Maya, Vierna, and the eldest, Briza, a newly ordained high priestess of Lolth.

The four drow males moved to kneel before the matron and her daughters, Rizzen to Malice, Zaknafein to Briza, Nalfein to Maya, and Dinin to Vierna.

He looked back to Briza, already in the midst of the second spell, the summoning.

Zak whispered, hoping that Briza, attuned to him in the meld, would sense his anxiety.

This technique of translating the pain of birth into an offensive spell attack had never been tried before, except in legend, and Briza knew that timing would be the critical factor.

The sphere shattered, dropping out a pellet that Briza had enchanted for just such occasions, a pellet glowing with the brightness of daylight.

Maya and Vierna reflexively headed for the sacred cabinet, but Briza cut them off.

Vierna bit her lip and hoped that neither Briza nor Malice had been reading her thoughts at that moment.

She stared hard at Briza, her dark eyes alternating between the red glow of infra vision and the deep green they showed in the aura of normal light.

Malice stepped up onto the balcony, but Briza grabbed the back of her heavy black robe to stay her.

If Malice was killed, Briza would take over the house, and Rizzen doubted that the eldest daughter would want any male by her side.

His natural tendency once had been to look upon a person with whom he was talking, but Briza had wasted no time in beating that instinct out of him.

Even Briza, so pompous and cruel, ran for hiding when the matron mother grew angry.

He fully expected, as every inch passed, a smack on his head, or a lashing on his back, Briza was behind him, always with her snake-headed whip near her anxious hand.

On cue, Briza cast a mind-numbing spell on the goblin, freezing it in its helpless position.