Meanings
nounanthophobia (uncountable)
- uncountableFear of flowers.
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.
1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 435
Origin
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with anthophobia
phobiahomophobiaxenophobiaagoraphobiaclaustrophobiaaphobiaZenobiaphotophobiaarachnophobiaacrophobiahydrophobiaablutophobiaacephobiaacousticophobiaadverbophobiaaerophobiaagraphobiaaibohphobiaaichmophobiaalgophobiaaltophobiaamathophobiaamaxophobiaambulophobia
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