creeping plant

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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

Creep′er, a creeping plant: a genus of small climbing birds; Creep′-hole, a hole into which to creep: a subterfuge; Creep′ie, a low stool, the old Scotch stool of repentance.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Red nightshade berries—not the deadly nightshade, but the ‘bitter-sweet’—hang sullenly among the bushes where this creeping plant has trailed over them.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

It was covered with the green leaves and white blossoms of a creeping plant.

From The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories by MacDonald, George

The first really creeping plant we have had to notice.

From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John