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  1. triffidnoun

    A fictional plant, able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger

  2. Etymology: Coined by John Wyndham for his 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids

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  1. Triffid

    The triffid is a fictional tall, mobile, carnivorous plant species, created by John Wyndham in his 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids, which has since been adapted for film and television. The word "triffid" has become a common reference in British English to describe large, invasive or menacing-looking plants.

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  1. Triffid

    The triffid is a tall, mobile, carnivorous, prolific and highly venomous fictional plant species—the titular antagonist in John Wyndham's 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids and Simon Clark's 2001 sequel The Night of the Triffids. Triffids were also featured in the 1957 BBC radio dramatization of Wyndham's book, a considerably altered film adaptation which was produced in 1962, a more faithful 1981 television serial produced by the BBC, and in a 2009 two-part TV series also produced by the BBC. Since 1951, when The Day of the Triffids was first published, the word "triffid" has become a popular British English colloquial term for large or menacing-looking plants.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of triffid in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of triffid in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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