CREEPING

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Crawling, or moving close to the ground. "Every creeping thing." Gen. vi. 20.

2.
a.

Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils. Casements lined with creeping herbs. Cowper. Ceeping crowfoot (Bot.), a plant, the Ranunculus repens.- Creeping snowberry, an American plant (Chiogenes hispidula) with white berries and very small round leaves having the flavor of wintergreen.