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Vine :: Vine (n.) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants..

Creep :: Creep (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable..

Ovenbird :: Ovenbird (n.) Any species of the genus Furnarius, allied to the creepers. They inhabit South America and the West Indies, and construct curious oven-shaped nests..

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there..

Crawler :: Crawler (n.) One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile..

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia)..

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) Crockets. See Crocket.

Curvirostres :: Curvirostres (n. pl.) A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches..

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is C. familiaris, a variety of which (var. Americana) inhabits America; -- called also tree creeper and creeptree. The American black and white creeper is Mniotilta varia..

Bignonia :: Bignonia (n.) A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus..

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons..

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing..

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers..

Trumpet-shaped :: Trumpet-shaped (a.) Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper..

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen..

Five-leaved :: Five-leaved (a.) Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper..

Radicant :: Radicant (a.) Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy..

Synaloepha :: Synallaxine (a.) Having the outer and middle toes partially united; -- said of certain birds related to the creepers.

Woodbine :: Woodbine (v. t.) The Virginia creeper. See Virginia creeper, under Virginia..

Guitguit :: Guitguit (n.) One of several species of small tropical American birds of the family Coerebidae, allied to the creepers; -- called also quit. See Quit..

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