canary creeper

British  

noun

1. a climbing plant, Tropaeolum peregrinum, similar to the nasturtium but with smaller yellow flowers and lobed leaves

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Example Sentences

What with the henth gettin' tho rank, and the earwigth, and the canary creeper.

From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The canary creeper is another plant, which is so airy and graceful that one never seems to tire of it.

From Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them by Biddle, Violet Purton

The roof over the well peeped amidst tussocks of grass a good eight feet high, and the canary creeper wrapped about the chimney stack and gesticulated with stiff tendrils towards the heavens.

From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Wandering Jew will also thrive, and the canary creeper grows as well in town as in the country.

From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield