creeper

Standing Waters[…] are most unwholesome, putrified, and full of mites, creepers, slimy, muddy, uncleane, corrupt, impure, by reason of the Suns heat, and still standing;

Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.

Don't go to a nightclub to find a boyfriend. They're all creepers there.

May joined Hutton and proceeded to play masterly cricket in which the straight-drive predominated. There was always the possibility that he might be trapped by a creeper, but May watched the ball intently.