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
Red nightshade berries—not the deadly nightshade, but the ‘bitter-sweet’—hang sullenly among the bushes where this creeping plant has trailed over them.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard
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.
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
