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Definition of Creeping thyme
1. Noun. Aromatic dwarf shrub common on banks and hillsides in Europe; naturalized in United States.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Creeping Thyme
Literary usage of Creeping thyme
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Turf for Golf Courses by Charles Vancouver Piper, Russell Arthur Oakley (1917)
"Among these are white clover, yarrow, mouse-ear chickweed, ground ivy, pearlwort,
sheep sorrel, thyme-leaved speedwell, carpenter-weed, creeping thyme, ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"creeping thyme — Thymus Serpyllum (X culata, Hort., and var. intermedia, Carr., are
intermediate ... creeping thyme. Creeping, wiry-stemmed, slightly pu- ..."
3. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"Dense cushions of creeping thyme usually contain two forms of blossoms on separate
plants—hermaphrodite (male and female), which are much the commoner; ..."
4. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1900)
"Wild or creeping thyme (Thymus Serpyllum) Mint family Preferred ... Dense cushions
of creeping thyme usually contain two forms of blossoms on separate ..."
5. Pausanias, and Other Greek Sketches by James George Frazer (1900)
"The thyme and the creeping thyme (serpyllum) of Hymettus are specially mentioned;
the creeping thyme was transplanted to Athens and grown there. ..."
6. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias (1898)
"Poets spoke of the flowery and fragrant Hymettus (Ovid, Met. vii. 72 ; Statius,
Theb. xii. 622). The thyme and the creeping thyme ..."
7. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"Leaves in the common species entire, small, from y to near £' long, ovate, obovate
or oblong with tapering base. y T. Serp^llum, creeping thyme. ..."
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