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triffid (iou)



triffid noun. M20.
[Word coined by John Wyndham (1903-69), Brit. writer, in his science-fiction novel The Day of the Triffids to refer to a race of locomotory stinging plants which threaten to overrun the world.]
A vigorous plant; transf. a thing that is invasive or rapid in development.