creeping plant
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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
So she returned to her father in heaven and reported her fruitless search; and at last he gave her some earth and a creeping plant.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Sir James George Frazer
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 Francis B. Pearson
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 Richard Jefferies
In his right hand was twisted the end of a long rope made of some sort of creeping plant, by which he led a huge and hideous reptile, somewhat resembling the Plesiosaurus.
From The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria by W. Scott-Elliot
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