tree-creepern.
1. A name for various birds which creep on the trunks and branches of trees; esp. the common European Certhia familiaris, or other species of the family Certhiidæ; also, a bird of the South American family Dendrocolaptidæ. Cf. creeper n. 3.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Certhiidae > certhia familiaris (tree-creeper)
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1814 Sporting Mag. 44 184 A tree-creeper, one of our smallest birds.
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. ix. 290 In America, the tree-creeper is furnished with a box at the end of a long pole to entice it to build in gardens, which it is..particularly useful in clearing from noxious insects.
1869 G. Rooper Flood, Field & Forest (1874) 208 The pretty lady-like tree-creeper ran like a mouse up the tree.
1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man ii. xvi. 206 An Australian tree-creeper (Climacteris erythrops).
2. A plant that creeps or climbs upon trees (cf. creeper n. 4); spec. the African rubber-plant, Landolphia florida.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular tree or plant yielding useful gum or resin > rubber trees or plants > [noun] > landolphia plants
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1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 94 The plant that produces it [india-rubber] is the giant tree-creeper (Landolphia florida?), covering the highest trees and growing principally on those near rivers or streams.
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