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Fantastic plant's amazing, finally five times bigger (7)

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triffid

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(Other definitions for triffid that I've seen before include "John Wyndham's lethal walking plant" , "John Wyndham's alien plant" , "novel poisoner" , "Killing growth" , "Predatory sci-fi plant" .)

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