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

He again sent her down; she reported extending surface of land, and then he sent her down with some earth and a creeping plant.

From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by Turner, George

No doubt the creeping plant would in a few seconds have attracted special attention, had not an incident turned their minds in another direction.

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

This is a creeping plant with a slender stem; almost 101quadrangular, the leaves grow four in a bunch; flowers small, fruit yellow, berry double, one being abortive.

From French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction by Bitmead, Richard

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