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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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CREEPING, ppl.adj. As in Eng., but note the following Sc. combs. in plant-names: (1) creepin(g)-bur, the club moss, Lycopodium clavatum (Cai. 1812 J. Henderson Agric. Cai., App. 197; 1886 B. and H. 128, creeping-); (2) creeping-Chairlie, = 2., the toadflax (Ags. 1955); (3) creeping-corn, a variety of foreign wild oat (see quot.); (4) creeping-seefer, "the ivy-leaved toad-flax, Linaria cymbalaria" (Gall. 1905 E.D.D. Suppl.); (5) creeping-wheat, see quot.(3)Sc. 1829 G. Robertson Recollections 284: 
A very coarse and large kind of them, that were brought from Otaheite as a curiosity. From this locomotive faculty, which in a degree in conformity to their greater size, they possessed more than our wild oats, they were called creeping-corn.(5)Bwk. 1809 R. Kerr Agric. Bwk. App. 35: 
For some years past, a variety of red wheat, denominated creeping wheat, has been a good deal cultivated in this county, and on the other side of the Tweed.