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

It was covered with the green leaves and white blossoms of a creeping plant.

From The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories by MacDonald, George

It is a low creeping plant, with yellow flowers; after they drop off, and the pods begin to form, they bury themselves in the earth, where they come to maturity.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

Here they laid the canes across the projecting branches of the three trees, binding them firmly in place with strong tendrils of a creeping plant.

From The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas by Strang, Mrs. Herbert

You see," replied his wife, winding her arm round his like a tender creeping plant round a sturdy oak, "if you slay, I must die also.

From The Day of Wrath by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)