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

The builder of houses doeth his work with difficulty; he is exposed to all weathers, and he must cling to the walls which he is building like a creeping plant.

From The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir

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

This is a creeping plant with a slender stem; almost 101quadrangular, the leaves grow four in a bunch; flowers small, fruit yellow, berry double, one being abortive.

From French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction by Bitmead, Richard

I was told that this is made out of another creeping plant, and is left in its own natural unstained colour, which, however, in this case is a dull brown red.

From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Williamson, Robert Wood