creeper : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a common creeper in North America with a down-curved bill
  American creeper; Certhia americana.
  

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• noun a common creeper in North America with a down-curved bill
  American creeper; Certhia americana.
  

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• noun a climber having flowers that are the color of canaries
  canarybird flower; Tropaeolum peregrinum; canarybird vine.
  

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• noun vigorous Philippine evergreen twining liana; grown for spectacular festoons of green flowers that resemble lobster claws
  Strongylodon macrobotrys; jade vine.
  

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• noun common European brown-and-buff tree creeper with down-curved bill
  Certhia familiaris.
  

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• noun vine of Costa Rica sparsely armed with hooklike spines and having large lilac-blue flowers
  Solanum wendlandii; potato vine.
  

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• (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of small, bright, colored, passerine birds of the family Coerebidæ, abundant in Central and South America.

Webster 1913

• noun any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
  creeper.
  
• noun any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers
  woodhewer; tree creeper; woodcreeper.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of arboreal creepers belonging to Certhia, Climacteris, and allied genera. See Creeper, 3.

Webster 1913

• noun a North American woody vine having pinnate leaves and large red trumpet-shaped flowers
  trumpet vine; Campsis radicans.
  

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• (Bot.), an American climbing plant (Tecoma radicans) bearing clusters of large red trumpet-shaped flowers; called also trumpet flower, and in England trumpet ash.

Webster 1913

• noun common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit
  Parthenocissus quinquefolia; woodbine; American ivy.
  

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• (Bot.), a common ornamental North American woody vine (Ampelopsis quinquefolia), climbing extensively by means of tendrils; called also woodbine, and American ivy. U.S.

Webster 1913

• noun crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa
  tichodrome; Tichodroma muriaria.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a small bright-colored bird (Tichodroma muraria) native of Asia and Southern Europe. It climbs about over old walls and cliffs in search of insects and spiders. Its body is ash-gray above, the wing coverts are carmine-red, the primary quills are mostly red at the base and black distally, some of them with white spots, and the tail is blackish. Called also spider catcher.

Webster 1913

• noun any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers
  woodhewer; tree creeper; woodcreeper.
  

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