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
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 Laura Lee Hope
Making Arms I tried first of all a very thin strand of a creeping plant, but though that was tough enough, it was not at all elastic, so that I gave that up at once.
From Palm Tree Island by Herbert Strang
Cucumber, kū′kum-bėr, n. a creeping plant, with heart-shaped leaves, rough with bristly hairs, and large oblong fruit used as a salad and pickle—a native of southern Asia.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
"He lives, the praise to Allah!" she replied, and with the words she wept more copiously, and turned from him to smell the clustered flowers of a certain creeping plant against the wall.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
