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adjective

Creeping adj.

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

Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils. "Casements lined with creeping herbs."

Creeping 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.

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Etymology of 'Creeping'

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"Creeping" Quotes from Famous Books

... God called for the animals to live on the green earth, and the cattle and the great beasts, and the creeping things came, and God ...

— Child's Story of the Bible • Mary A. Lathbury

... Government offices, all built on piles, that the white ants should not humble them suddenly to the dust; a fever-making mangrove swamp, black at the base as the filthiest moat, and tenanted by reptiles; feeble palms, and a sickly breath creeping from the jungle to mingle with the heavy scent of the last consignment of augar from the Popri valley. It brought him to a melancholy standstill, disturbed at last by Gongi touching him on the arm and ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... Hindustani he had learnt at Duri. Luckily they were largely Mussulmans. Should he abandon the setting sun and take to the river, following it until it reached the sea? He could take ship then for Africa by creeping aboard in the darkness, and hiding himself until the ship had started.... There might be no city at the mouth of the river when he got there. It might never reach the sea. It might just vanish into some ...

— Driftwood Spars - The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who - Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life • Percival Christopher Wren

... a window he ordered them all up, and directed Rayner to go and see that they made their appearance on deck. Among one of the first who came creeping up, our hero discovered his ...

— From Powder Monkey to Admiral - A Story of Naval Adventure • W.H.G. Kingston

... brought up) that stands here, on whose back the little street boy had such adventures. The boar himself was the work of Pietro Tacca (1586-1650), a copy from an ancient marble original, now in the Uffizi, at the top of the entrance stairs; but the pedestal with its collection of creeping things is modern. The Florentines who stand in the market niches are Bernardo Cennini, a goldsmith and one of Ghiberti's assistants, who introduced printing into Florence in 1471 and began with an edition of Virgil; Giovanni Villani, ...

— A Wanderer in Florence • E. V. Lucas

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