Definition of American creeper

1. Noun. A common creeper in North America with a down-curved bill.

Exact synonyms: Brown Creeper, Certhia Americana
Generic synonyms: Creeper, Tree Creeper
Group relationships: Certhia, Genus Certhia

Lexicographical Neighbors of American Creeper

American centaury
American chameleon
American cheese
American chestnut
American cocker spaniel
American cocker spaniels
American cockroach
American cockroaches
American columbo
American coot
American copper
American crab apple
American cranberry
American cranberry bush
American crayfish
American creeper (current term)
American cress
American crow
American dewberry
American dog tick
American dog violet
American dogwood
American dun-bar
American dun-bars
American dwarf birch
American eagle
American eagles
American egret
American elder
American elk

Literary usage of American creeper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reminiscences of a Country Journalist by Thomas Frost (1886)
"with American creeper; and between the kitchen and the fence was a narrow space which I converted into a fernery, covering the black fence and the wall with ..."

2. Report of the Commissioners [and Appendices A to S] by Ontario Agricultural Commission (1880), Samuel Casey Wood (1881)
"THE American creeper. The American creeper is not very common here, and restricts itself chiefly to the woods. So far as it goes it is beneficial, ..."

3. The Birds of Canada: With Descriptions of Their Habits, Food, Nests, Eggs by Alexander Milton Ross (1871)
"The American creeper. This industrious insect-hunter is a permanent resident of Canada. Color, above, dark brown, each feather streaked with white ..."

4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"(1) Cf. HALSE, and NUT ALL. (2) Mr. Britten (p. 11) gives Alnus glutinosa, L., as bearing this name in North Devon. American creeper ..."

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