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

Botanical Description.—A small creeping plant with milky juice.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

I was told that this is made out of another creeping plant, and is left in its own natural unstained colour, which, however, in this case is a dull brown red.

From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Williamson, Robert Wood

Black pepper is the fruit of a shrubby creeping plant, which grows wild in the East Indies, and is cultivated, with much advantage, for the sake of its berries, in Java and Malabar.

From A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy by Accum, Friedrich Christian

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