Word Meanings - CREEPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Crawling, or moving close to the ground. "Every creeping thing." Gen. vi. 20. 2. 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

Additional info about word: CREEPING

1. Crawling, or moving close to the ground. "Every creeping thing." Gen. vi. 20. 2. 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 , a plant, the Ranunculus repens.- Creeping snowberry, an American plant with white berries and very small round leaves having the flavor of wintergreen.

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• THRASH; THRESH
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• THEBAN
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• THREE-SQUARE
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