triffidian

comparative more triffidian · superlative most triffidian

1. Resembling or relating to triffids ("a fictional plant able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger").

   It was assumed, consequently, that their characteristic of suddenly losing their immobility and rattling a rapid tattoo against the main stem was some strange form of triffidian amatory exuberance.

   1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 45

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   Some stayed on in the old house and, with consummate dignity, would totter down avenues choked with weeds and brambles which grow at a triffidian rate in Ireland, to a servant's cottage pretending to inquire about the ancient groom's.

   1989, Ann Morrow, Picnic in a Foreign Land: The Eccentric Lives of the Anglo-Irish, London; […]: Grafton Books, →ISBN, page 164

   Synonyms: triffidlike