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Definition of Tree creeper

1. Noun. Any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet.

2. Noun. Any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tree Creeper

tree-frog tree-hugger tree-hugging tree-line tree-living tree-ring tree-rings tree-shaped tree-shrew tree-worship

tree bark tree branch tree celandine tree clubmoss tree cotton tree creeper (current term) tree cricket tree diagram tree farm tree farmer

tree farming tree farms tree frog tree frogs tree fuchsia tree heath tree house tree houses tree hugger

Literary usage of Tree creeper

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"TREE-CREEPER, one of the smallest of British birds, and, regard being had to its requirements, one very generally distributed. ..."

2. Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals by John George Wood (1866)
"... its habitation—The tree creeper—The NUTHATCH and the HOOPOE—Curious nest of the Hoopoe—The COLE-TIT and its habits—A Cole- tit's nest at Walton Hall—The ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"TREE-CREEPER, one of the smallest of British birds, and, regard being had to its requirements, one тегу generally distributed. ..."

4. Wanderings in the Interior of New Guinea by John A. Lawson (1875)
"... seizing its prey—Great heat—The weeping tree—Creeper- covered plain—Dragon-fly and water lizards—Trouble with Billy—I sharpen him up—Barren hills—Crows' ..."

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