triffid

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fictional plant, able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger
    — But this should not lead to complete avoidance, as if it is like some dire incursion of triffids or ents.
  2. Any of the sea anemones of the genus Aiptasia with poisonous tentacles, which are a pest in aquaria. colloquial
    — The plant is also very rare (related to triffids ... be wary) as it acts like a venus fly trap except it gives its catches to the fish, a truly symbiotic relationship
  3. Any large, fast-growing and hard-to-remove weed, such as the flowering shrub Chromolaena odorata.
    — Perhaps the BBC could get the Radio 2 King of the Tomatoes to come back and tell us what programmes to play to discourage rampant growth in minor forests of giant bindweed, monster nettles and apprentice triffids.

词形变化

triffids plural

词汇关系

衍生词
triffidian triffidlike

词源

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
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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