Creep"ing, a.
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 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.
© Webster 1913.