creeping


Definition: Meaning of, creeping in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈkriːpɪŋ /

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creeping creepings
  1. a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
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creeping used in phrases

  • creeping Charlie (noun)
    1. a loosestrife vine
  • creeping Jenny (noun)
    1. a loosestrife vine
  • creeping St John's wort (noun)
    1. creeping evergreen shrub with bright yellow star-shaped summer flowers; useful as ground cover
  • creeping bellflower (noun)
    1. erect European herb with creeping rootstocks and nodding spikelike racemes of blue to violet flowers
  • creeping bent (noun)
    1. common pasture or lawn grass spread by long runners
  • creeping bentgrass (noun)
    1. common pasture or lawn grass spread by long runners
  • creeping bugle (noun)
    1. low rhizomatous European carpeting plant having spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in parts of United States
  • creeping buttercup (noun)
    1. perennial European herb with long creeping stolons
  • creeping crowfoot (noun)
    1. perennial European herb with long creeping stolons
  • creeping fern (noun)
    1. delicate fern of the eastern United States having a twining stem and palmately-lobed sterile fronds and forked fertile fronds
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