mycophobic

comparative more mycophobic · superlative most mycophobic

1. Having or relating to an aversion to mushrooms or fungi.

   Not all European countries are as mycophobic as the English. In Italy, Poland, and much of Eastern Europe and Russia, mushrooms are an important part of the diet [...]

   2002, Georges M. Halpern, Andrew P. Miller, Medicinal Mushrooms, page 10

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   Mycophobic attitudes might fuel a moral panic that leads to their illegalisation, or prompt Albertus Magnus and John Gerard to issue stark warnings about the dangers of these 'new fangled meates'.

   2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 231

   Antonyms: fungiphilic, mycophilic