anthophobia

English

Etymology

From antho- +‎ -phobia.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -əʊbiə

Noun

anthophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear of flowers.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 435:
      He must be gaga to have forgotten what she said the last time about her strange anthophobia (somehow stemming from that debauche à trois thirty years ago). Roses she never liked anyway.
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