CREEPING

Creep″ing, a. 1. 1. Crawling, or moving close to the ground. “Every creeping thing.” Gen. vi. 20.
2. 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 (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.