Creeping

a.	1.	Crawling, or moving close to the ground.
	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.

Noun

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creeping - a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body); "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep" Synonyms: crawling, crawl, creep

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