clinging plant

Though boaters and others who use infested waters for recreation are warned to wash their watercraft, remove any clinging plant matter from their equipment, and discard any water they might be carrying before traveling to another body of water, those who use baitfish are likely unaware that they may be inadvertently transporting zebra mussels, the authors fear.

Beyond were gently undulating hills, clothed by a strange and splendid vegetation, intermingled—for the view was of some extent—with the rugged face of rocks, their hardness softened by masses of clinging plant.

A green, clinging plant, waving long tendrils, clutched at her gown as she passed, and she broke it off, and, twining it into a crown, put it on her hair.

And then, in his heart, there would shoot forth a tiny green blade, then there was the opening leaf, and soon again the blossom; while roots spread here and there lacing and interlacing stronger and stronger than ever, as if he had been by his efforts merely preparing the soil for a richer growth of the ever-verdant clinging plant that he sought in vain to tear away.

She was that sad, silly spectacle, a clinging plant without support.