creeping plant

Example Sentences

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Nothing was too insignificant for Frigg to ask, save only the mistletoe, a creeping plant that lives on other trees.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

The main cabin was well appointed in hardwood, with red cushions on the transoms and a creeping plant or so hanging here and there.

From A Man to His Mate by Mulford, Stockton

Botanical Description.—A small creeping plant with milky juice.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

In her heart there grew The bitter creeping plant of discontent, The plant that only grows in prison soil, Whose root is hunger and whose fruit is pain.

From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry

Then, as she looked about the little clearing where the accident had taken place she saw, dangling from a tree, a long vine of some creeping plant.

From The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms Or Lost in the Wilds of Florida by Hope, Laura Lee