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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
triffid/ˈtrɪfɪd/

▶noun (in science fiction) a large predatory plant which is able to move about and has a poisonous sting.

– origin coined by John Wyndham in Day of the Triffids (1951).

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