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
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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
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
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
There is a creeping plant, called Aristolochia indica, the leaves of which have in repeated instances done wonders for fearful bites.
From The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Wyss, Jean Rudolph