Creeping Thyme (Noun)
Meaning
Aromatic dwarf shrub common on banks and hillsides in Europe; naturalized in United States.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Creeping thyme was used as a culinary herb by the ancient Romans, and was introduced to the British Isles by the Normans.
- A few stalks of rosemary, lavender, and creeping thyme had sprouted among the weathered headstones in the abandoned graveyard.
- Her mother loved tending the tiny patches of herbs and wildflowers, particularly the soft mats of creeping thyme.
- Where grass will not grow, plantings of sweet woodruff and creeping thyme had formed lush groundcover underfoot.
- Dry and prickly grass was about the only growth the highland area seemed capable of supporting except in some shaded pockets, where rosemary, marjoram, or creeping thyme still flourished.