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.
Exact synonyms: Wood-creeper, Woodcreeper, Woodhewer
Generic synonyms: Tyrannid
Group relationships: Dendrocolaptidae, Family Dendrocolaptidae

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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