Of a plant: creeping, climbing, or spreading rapidly; sending out many runners. Also in the names of plants which have this characteristic. See…

That opens out, extends, or grows outwards; increasing in size or area. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. Of trees or plants.

Spread out, stretched or lying at full length (esp. on the ground); rare, except in predicative use… Of a plant: Creeping, trailing on the ground.

Of a plant. Climbing, clinging. Obsolete. rare.

Of plants: Trailing; sending out long tendrils, runners, or adventitious roots. Also in Wandering Jew (after 1c), Wandering Sailor(s, Wandering Jenny…

Chiefly poetic. Of a plant or part of a plant, esp. a vine: spreading, rambling, straggling. Cf. gad, v.1 4.

Of a plant: spreading, esp. by means of long flexible trailing stems, stolons, runners, etc.; scrambling. Also (of a root, branch, etc.): growing…

Of a plant: creeping. Obsolete. rare.

Zoology (and Botany). Of a sessile animal, or (formerly) †a plant or part of a plant (obsolete): prostrate; growing along the ground or…

= scandent, adj.

Of or pertaining to climbing; given to climbing.

Botany. Of a plant, leaf, or stem: lying flat on the ground, especially without rooting; trailing or growing along the ground. Also: designating…

Botany and Zoology. Of a plant or part of a plant, or (later also) a sessile animal: prostrate; (esp. of the stem of a plant) creeping along the…

Climbing; ascending.

Botany. Of a plant: having a prostrate habit of growth; procumbent. Of a plant part: †facing upwards (obsolete); lying flat (on the ground or…

Irregular or rambling in form or habit. Of a plant: Of straggling or rambling growth.

Of plants: Having a stem or stems which extend themselves horizontally along the surface of the ground, and throw out roots at intervals. It is…

= sarmentose, adj.

Of a plant: creeping, repent (repent, adj.2 1a). Obsolete.

(See quot. 1863.)

Botany. Of a plant, its stem, etc.: growing flat against or close to the ground.

Of a plant, or a branch, stem, or shoot of a plant: see trail, v.1 6. Also in the names of plants with a trailing habit; trailing arbutus: = New En…

spec. Botany. Lying or trailing upon the ground, but with the extremity ascending: applied to stems, branches, etc.

Of a root or other part of a plant: that spreads, esp. in a horizontal or unwanted direction. Also: designating a plant having such roots.

Of plants: Rambling or straggling in growth or habit; straying. Also of hair.

= sarmentose, adj.

(See quot.)

= sarmentose, adj.

(See quot.)

‘Spread over the surface of the ground’ (Gray).

That climbs, in the senses of the verb.

That clambers, in various senses of the verb.