triffid

A triffid is a highly venomous fictional plant species. ...

A Triffid Is Winging Its Way from New Zealand Fresca 2009

Then again, in full sail, she was a wonderful sight: Rod Hull's emu as styled by Salvador Dali, a human triffid who smoked Benson and Hedges, who never wore underwear and whose touchstones in life were good jewellery and high birth, and not a lot else.

Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow by Detmar Blow Rachel Cooke 2010

Their huge yellow discs have risen triffid-like above everything else and they have all turned in a single direction.

Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk Mark Cocker 2010

They peeled off the main road onto a dirt track that cut into a mass of thornbush and creeping triffid weed.

Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

Mashed triffid is very nutritious - that's canonical from the novel.

Book Review: The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals girliejones 2010

Berdych may have had the heft, but as the match wore on Nadal's effortless mobility began to make his opponent lurch like an ailing triffid in the tramlines.

Wimbledon 2010: Berdych's bulk no match for faultless Nadal Barney Ronay at Wimbledon 2010

Those huge triffid-like columns that look so ineradicably healthy now, wither and dry slowly over the autumn, until they are mere hollowed-out skeletons by November.

Country diary 2010

They peeled off the main road onto a dirt track that cut into a mass of thornbush and creeping triffid weed.

Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

I added a lot of dill, too, since the stuff has gone triffid in my garden.

This week's new recipe girliejones 2010

I'm going to stay on the safe side and serve you triffid goulash and Ent risotto next time I have you over for an imaginary dinner.

Book Review: The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals girliejones 2010