triffidian
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Etymology edit
Adjective edit
triffidian (comparative more triffidian, superlative most triffidian)
- Resembling or relating to triffids ("a fictional plant able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger").
- Synonym: triffidlike
- 1989, Ann Morrow, Picnic in a Foreign Land: The Eccentric Lives of the Anglo-Irish, London, […]: Grafton Books, →ISBN, page 164:
- 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.
References edit
- “triffidian, adj.” under “triffid, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2024), “triffidian, adj.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.
