資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Creeping \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.