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

Then, as she looked about the little clearing where the accident had taken place she saw, dangling from a tree, a long vine of some creeping plant.

From The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms Or Lost in the Wilds of Florida by Hope, Laura Lee

The main cabin was well appointed in hardwood, with red cushions on the transoms and a creeping plant or so hanging here and there.

From A Man to His Mate by Mulford, Stockton

In his right hand was twisted the end of a long rope made of some sort of creeping plant, by which he led a huge and hideous reptile, somewhat resembling the Plesiosaurus.

From The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria by Scott-Elliot, W.

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