canary creeper

British

noun

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

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

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

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"The canary creeper's got in among the pine trees now," said the man with the lorgnette.

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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.

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