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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Resembling or relating to triffids ("a fictional plant able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger")..
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."
Use triffidlike when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Triffidlike means Resembling or relating to triffids ("a fictional plant able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger")..
Common synonyms include triffidian.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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."
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