Meaning of triffidian | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“It was assumed, consequently, that their characteristic of suddenly losing their immobility and rattling a rapid tattoo against the main stem was some strange form of triffidian amatory exuberance.”

“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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