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 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

This little hedge, too, must be overgrown with that creeping plant we got from America, the white liana.

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

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

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