triffidian

English

Etymology

From triffid + -ian.

Adjective

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").
    Synonym: triffidlike
    • 1989, Ann Morrow, Picnic in a Foreign Land: The Eccentric Lives of the Anglo-Irish, London,  []: Grafton Books, →ISBN, page 164:
      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.

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