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Procumbent vs Creeping - What's the difference?

procumbent | creeping |

As an adjective procumbent

is prone or prostrate.

As a verb creeping is

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As a noun creeping is

the act of something that creeps.

procumbent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • prone or prostrate
  • (botany) That trails along the ground
    • ----

    creeping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that creeps.
  • * 1824 , Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons
    • It is indubitably certain, therefore, that he is able to attend, and actually attends, to all things at the same moment; to the motions of a seed, or a leaf, or an atom; to the creepings of a worm, the flutterings of an insect, and the journeys of a mite