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

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 Finck, Henry Theophilus

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

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

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

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