creeper
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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
As Donoghue writes, “What’s between them grows like a creeper that covers the ugliest bricks and drainpipes in living green.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
The newly identified species has been named Arenaepeton supinatus, which means "sand creeper on its back" in Latin.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2023
Native to North America, they also eat small berries from our native plants such as Virginia creeper.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
Only sometimes as he lifted the ropes of creeper aside and chose his direction from the trend of the land, he mouthed words that did not reach the air.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
He teamed it with a silver neck chain and earring plus white brothel creepers for extra height.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2022
Plot twist: Vegas has been overrun by zombies— not the shambling, mindless creepers from The Walking Dead, mind you; these zombies are organized and smart.
From The Verge ● Apr. 18, 2021
And because it came from Rihanna’s brain herself, you couldn’t get a pair of those creepers if you tried.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2020
The visit to the century-old house — with its peeling paint, wraparound porch covered in creepers, and black turret rising above the greens — had shaken him.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2016
The tree trunks and the creepers that festooned them lost themselves in a green dusk thirty feet above him, and all about was the undergrowth.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
