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

This is a creeping plant with a slender stem; almost 101quadrangular, the leaves grow four in a bunch; flowers small, fruit yellow, berry double, one being abortive.

From French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction by Bitmead, Richard

It is a low creeping plant, with yellow flowers; after they drop off, and the pods begin to form, they bury themselves in the earth, where they come to maturity.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

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

Before it became completely dark, Ahmed collected some long strands of a creeping plant that grew plentifully in the copse.

From Barclay of the Guides by Strang, Herbert