triffid.
A fictional plant, able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger
Meaning & usage
A fictional plant, able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger
Any of the sea 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.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *bʰinédti Proto-Italic *findō Latin findō Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-os Archaic Latin -os Latin -us Latin -fidus Latin trifidusbor. English trifid English triffid Coined by John Wyndham for his 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids, by alteration of the botanical term trifid (“having three lobes”).
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