Wiktionary
n. 1 A yellow-flowered crawling plant ((taxlink Lysimachia nummularia species noshow=1), Myrsinaceae) native to Europe, widely planted, also known as moneywort. 2 (vern field bindweed Field bindweed) ((taxlink Convolvulus arvensis species noshow=1), Convolvulaceae).
WordNet
n. a loosestrife vine [syn: moneywort, creeping Charlie, Lysimachia nummularia]
Usage examples of "creeping jenny".
The Moneywort is far more often known by the familiar names of Creeping Jenny, Wandering Jenny, Running Jenny, Creeping Joan and Wandering Sailor - all names alluding to its rapid trailing over the ground.
This Treacle Tom to whom reference has been made had been absent from his usual wild and woolly haunts in the land of counties capalleens for some time previous to that (he was, in fact, in the habit of frequenting common lodginghouses where he slept in a nude state, hailfellow with meth, in strange men's cots) but on racenight, blotto after divers tots of hell fire, red biddy, bull dog, blue ruin and creeping jenny, Eglandine's choicest herbage, supplied by the Duck and Doggies, the Galopping Primrose, Brigid Brewster's, the Cock, the Postboy's Horn, the Little Old Man's and All Swell That Aimswell, the Cup and the Stirrup, he sought his wellwarmed leababobed in a housingroom Abide With Oneanother at Block W.
Such parents as the Emperor of Morocco, Creeping Jenny, Guy of Warwick, Sir Julius Caesar .
Such parents as the Emperor of Morocco, Creeping Jenny, Guy of Warwick, Sir Julius Caesar.