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Meaning of triffidlike | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

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

Examples

“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."”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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