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anthophobia

anthophobia noun: fear of flowers.

Noun

anthophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear 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

anthophobia meaning in Tamil and Kannada

anthophobia in Tamil

மலர் அச்சம், மலர் வெறுப்பு

anthophobia in Kannada

ಹೂವಂಜಿಕೆ

Origin of anthophobia

From antho- + -phobia.

Words that rhyme with anthophobia

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Questions about anthophobia

What does anthophobia mean?
Anthophobia means fear of flowers.
What is anthophobia in Tamil?
Anthophobia in Tamil is மலர் அச்சம், மலர் வெறுப்பு. See Anthophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is anthophobia?
Anthophobia is a noun.

Words near anthophobia in the dictionary

  1. anthophiles
  2. anthophilia
  3. anthophilic
  4. anthophilous
  5. anthophily
  6. anthophobia
  7. anthophore
  8. anthophores
  9. anthophorid
  10. anthophorids
  11. anthophorinid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anthophobia (page history and authors); anthophobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); anthophobia (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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