Triffidlike

Quick meaning: Triffidlike is an adjective meaning Resembling or relating to triffids ("a fictional plant able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger").

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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."

Word Forms

• triffid-like

Synonyms for triffidlike

Depending on context, synonyms include triffidian.

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