creeper (n.)
Old English creopera "one who creeps," creopere "a cripple," agent nouns from creep (v.). Also see creep (n.). Meaning "lice" is from 1570s; of certain birds which scramble in trees and bushes from 1660s; of certain plants which grow upon the surface, sending out rootlets from the stem, from 1620s.
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