1) Fictional plant 
The triffid is a fictitious, tall, mobile, prolific and highly venomous plant species, the titular antagonist in John Wyndham`s 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids and Simon Clark`s 2001 sequel The Night of the Triffids. Triffids were also featured in the 1957 BBC radio dramatization of Wyndham`s book, a considerably altered 1962 film adaptation......