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
Botanical Description.—A small creeping plant with milky juice.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
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 Charles James Lever
You see," replied his wife, winding her arm round his like a tender creeping plant round a sturdy oak, "if you slay, I must die also.
From The Day of Wrath by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
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 Francis B. Pearson
