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
Two halves of a cocoanut shell hung from the top of the window with a curious little creeping plant growing in them, and sending long, hanging tendrils down over the sides.
From The Carroll Girls by Quiller-Couch, Mabel
The first really creeping plant we have had to notice.
From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John
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
Cucumber, kū′kum-bėr, n. a creeping plant, with heart-shaped leaves, rough with bristly hairs, and large oblong fruit used as a salad and pickle—a native of southern Asia.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
