triffidlike

English

Alternative forms

• triffid-like

Etymology

From triffid +‎ -like.

Adjective

triffidlike (comparative more triffidlike, superlative most triffidlike)

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

   Synonym: triffidian

   • 1993, David Yeadon, Lost Worlds: Exploring the Earth's Remote Places, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 74:

     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."

References

• “triffidan, adj.” under “triffid, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2024), “triffidlike, adj.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.