creeper

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In the past few weeks, flowers, messages and cuddly toys have grown like a creeper on the chain link fence at the entrance of Old Timers town camp in Australia's Northern Territory.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Not one creeper seems to doubt that the others have a soul.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025

Kittelberger photographed the pictured 'Akikiki, also called Kauai's creeper, in the Alaka'i Wilderness Preserve in 2022, when it was believed around 70 or so remained in the wild; today, only one individual remains.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2024

Native to North America, they also eat small berries from our native plants such as Virginia creeper.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2023

Then the wave came back, the gully boiled before them and spray dashed up to the very creeper so that the boys were wet and shrieking.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding