creeping plant
Example Sentences
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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
There was in my sister Honora's garden a pretty creeping plant, new at that time, covered with little trumpet-like flowers.
From Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Henry Theophilus Finck
This little hedge, too, must be overgrown with that creeping plant we got from America, the white liana.
From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
He again sent her down; she reported extending surface of land, and then he sent her down with some earth and a creeping plant.
From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by George Turner
