Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology, creeping or crawling; reptant; reptile; repent.
- Of the nature of reptation in mathematics.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Creeping.
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- adjective zoology
creeping
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Examples
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I had several times seen the little brown creeper clinging to the vertical wall of a tree and preening his plumes after a bath, and it was natural to suppose that his congener, the nuthatch, being also a bird of reptatory habits, would follow the same formula.
Our Bird Comrades 1896
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