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
Before it became completely dark, Ahmed collected some long strands of a creeping plant that grew plentifully in the copse.
From Barclay of the Guides by Strang, Herbert
"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
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 Scott-Elliot, W.
Max turned, and beheld the head of a great beast thrust through the leaves of some creeping plant that bound the trunks of two trees together in a kind of lattice-work.
From The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo by Gilson, Charles
