Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

triffidlike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: trif-fid-like
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or relating to triffids ("a fictional plant able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger").

Example Sentences

"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 layers of previous "crowns.""

Etymology

From triffid + -like.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: triffid

Inflected Forms

more triffidlike (comparative) most triffidlike (superlative) triffid-like (alternative)

Synonyms

triffidian

Questions

What does triffidlike mean?: Resembling or relating to triffids ("a fictional plant able to move around and kill people with a poisonous stinger").
Where does triffidlike come from?: From triffid + -like.

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