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Definition of American creeper
1. Noun. A common creeper in North America with a down-curved bill.
Generic synonyms: Creeper, Tree Creeper
Group relationships: Certhia, Genus Certhia
Lexicographical Neighbors of American Creeper
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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