triffidlike

comparative more triffidlike · superlative most triffidlike · alternative triffid-like

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

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   Enormous twenty-foot-high versions of the familiar ankle-high lobelia surged like fiery spears into the clearing sky; equally tall groups of triffidlike groundsels and senecios, crowned with thick cabbagelike rosettes of leaves, rose on ancient thigh-thick trunks encased in the dead and rotting layers of previous "crowns."

   1993, David Yeadon, Lost Worlds: Exploring the Earth's Remote Places, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 74

   Synonyms: triffidian