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

There is a creeping plant, called Aristolochia indica, the leaves of which have in repeated instances done wonders for fearful bites.

From The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Wyss, Jean Rudolph

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

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

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