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Meaning of "triffid"
Triffid (noun): A fictional plant species from John Wyndham's novel 'The Day of the Triffids.' It's often used symbolically to refer to highly dangerous or menacing plants or organisms
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- A fictional plant, able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger
- Any of the anemones of the genus Aiptasia with poisonous tentacles, which are a pest in aquaria.
- Any large, fast-growing and hard-to-remove weed, such as the flowering shrub Chromolaena odorata.
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Fight a triffid that spits poison and kills.
If it were a choice of survival between a blind man and a triffid.
The latest triffid reports from the front.
I will get you a male triffid.
Triffid oil saved the world from global warming.
It had been thirty years since my mother was killed by a triffid.
We did not see any other triffid in hiding there.
Triffid hisses on tape.
One male triffid head.
I am disconnecting this triffid.
The triffid farms.
I used to work on a triffid farm.
My triffid recordings.
You were a biologist on a triffid farm.
This is triffid poison.
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He looked at the man on the ground and then at the shorn triffid.
Of a triffid sting.
Tether the triffid.
The triffid farms are decades old by the time of the meteor shower.
Above the base are upturned leafless sticks which the triffid drums against its stem.
What was the triffid count this morning?
Major Coker tells me you are a triffid expert.
It 's got triffid sounds from the farm on it.
I was the first person in England to have been stung by a triffid.
Fight a Triffid that.
We found bits of him up on the Heath after the triffid attack.
I have never seen a triffid climb the side of a building, but just in case.
Worries about possible contamination of conventional flax seed led to the withdrawal of Triffid flax.
The base of a triffid is a large muscle-like root mass, comprising three blunt appendages.
So is a walking plant, but a triffid walks.
Triffid recordings . They are communicating.
The community there has thrived, primarily by refining triffid oil into fuel.
With me is triffid expert, Dr Bill Masen.
That recording 's from a triffid in Africa.
The Triffid started life in the garage of an American ex-military engineer, Chris Field.
Received and understood. Tether the triffid.
Triffid tether de-activated.
As I had a bond with them, I went to work on a triffid farm and so did you.
It 's triffid recordings.
OK, Major Coker needed Bill to help out on another triffid attack.
I've never seen a triffid climb the side of a building, but just in case.
It had been 30 years since my mother was killed by a triffid.
We will pick up those triffid guns and find somewhere safe to stay, all right?
It 's miles from the triffid farms.
It's got triffid sounds from the farm on it. With this.
Fortunately, it's all down to the Triffid now.
With this . It 's got triffid sounds from the farm on it.
And my mother … she died in Zaire . of a triffid sting.
That recording's from a triffid in Africa. It wasn't genetically modified.
He lives near Windsor . It 's miles from the triffid farms.
