Triffid

Quick meaning: Triffid is a noun meaning A fictional plant, able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger.

Meaning

A fictional plant, able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger.

More Meanings

1. (colloquial) Any of the sea anemones of the genus Aiptasia with poisonous tentacles, which are a pest in aquaria.
2. Any large, fast-growing and hard-to-remove weed, such as the flowering shrub Chromolaena odorata.

Example Sentences

But this should not lead to complete avoidance, as if it is like some dire incursion of triffids or ents.

I too suffer from the dreaded Triffids !!! If you want a safer method of removal : I use boiling hot water and the syringe method.

But some of them are multiplying fast, and those dismissed as trivial today, because they only infest a few road verges, may well turn into triffids tomorrow.

The plant is also very rare (related to triffids ... be wary) as it acts like a venus fly trap except it gives its catches to the fish, a truly symbiotic relationship

Word Forms

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