triffidlike
triffidlike adjective: resembling or relating to triffids ("a fictional plant able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger").
Adjective
triffidlike (comparative more triffidlike, superlative most triffidlike)
- Resembling or relating to triffids ("a fictional plant able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger").
- 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...1993, David Yeadon, Lost Worlds: Exploring the Earth's Remote Places, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 74
- Synonyms:
- triffidian
Synonyms of triffidlike
Forms of triffidlike
| comparative | more triffidlike |
|---|---|
| superlative | most triffidlike |
| alternative form | triffid-like |
Origin of triffidlike
From triffid + -like.
Questions about triffidlike
- What does triffidlike mean?
- Triffidlike means resembling or relating to triffids ("a fictional plant able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger").
- What part of speech is triffidlike?
- Triffidlike is an adjective.
Words near triffidlike in the dictionary
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