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

As it was certain, however, that they would find it in a few minutes, Ebony sprang upon the creeping plant and clambered along its tortuous limbs like a monkey.

From The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by Pearson, Francis B.

There is a variety of the red cedar, which trails upon the ground like a creeping plant, its branches even taking root again.

From The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North by Harvey, William

"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 Pickthall, Marmaduke William

Two halves of a cocoanut shell hung from the top of the window with a curious little creeping plant growing in them, and sending long, hanging tendrils down over the sides.

From The Carroll Girls by Quiller-Couch, Mabel