triffid

• “A triffid is a highly venomous fictional plant species. ...”

  A Triffid Is Winging Its Way from New Zealand

• “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.”

  The Guardian: Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow by Detmar Blow

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

  The Guardian: Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk

• “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.”

  The Guardian: Wimbledon 2010: Berdych's bulk no match for faultless Nadal

• “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.”

  The Guardian: Country diary

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

  This week's new recipe

• “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

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

  Book Review: The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals

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

  Simon & Schuster: Let The Dead Lie

• “How could we even consider trusting blokes who look as though the triffid like lichen from the last cave they lived has taken root in their heart?”

  What Kind Of Dick Is He ?

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