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bananaphobia

bananaphobia noun: fear, hate, or dislike of bananas.

Noun

bananaphobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear, hate, or dislike of bananas.
    • […]in bed by 6:45 each evening and were even forbidden to eat certain foods, such as bananas, until they were twelve. This had the predictable result of inducing a certain amount of bananaphobia as the twelfth birthday approached.1985, Time, page 76
    • Somewhere in my past, no doubt, I had a bad experience with lunch rooms, or over-ripe bananas. A psychiatrist would have a term of some sort for the banana-phobia, but this is just one of those things I’ll never overcome.[…]If my banana-phobia is a problem for me, than^([sic]) the...1987 March 31, Tom Wright, “Wright Angles”, in Lassen County Times, volume 9, number 24, Susanville, Calif., page 4

bananaphobia meaning in Tamil

bananaphobia in Tamil

வாழைப்பழ வெருளி

Examples of bananaphobia in a sentence

  • As Jones’s “bananaphobia” ripened, she’s taken measures to accommodate it.2008, “Bananaphobia: The yellow fruit has no ap-peel”, in People:
  • Jones, 36, of Hanover, who suffers from bananaphobia, was featured in a People magazine article Sept. 8 about different types of phobias.[…]But Jones said she’s never sought help for her bananaphobia.2008 September 12, Brock Parker, “Bananaphobia brings her fame”, in The York Dispatch, volume 133, edition 180, York, Pa., pages A1 and A9:
  • He just sits up in his treetop where he’ll whimper and he’ll pout, as he has bananaphobia; bananas freak him out.2010, Kenn Nesbitt, “Banana Dan”, in The Tighty Whitey Spider and More Wacky Animal Poems I Totally Made Up, Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, page...
  • The hosts, Frankie and Danger Boy, were talking about people who suffered from bananaphobia—the intense fear of bananas.2011, Richard Paul Evans, “The Morning After”, in Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25, Simon Pulse/Mercury Ink, →ISBN, page 22:

Origin of bananaphobia

From banana + -phobia.

Questions about bananaphobia

What does bananaphobia mean?
Bananaphobia means fear, hate, or dislike of bananas.
What is bananaphobia in Tamil?
Bananaphobia in Tamil is வாழைப்பழ வெருளி. See Bananaphobia meaning in Tamil.
How do you use bananaphobia in a sentence?
As Jones’s “bananaphobia” ripened, she’s taken measures to accommodate it.
What part of speech is bananaphobia?
Bananaphobia is a noun.

Words near bananaphobia in the dictionary

  1. bananaless
  2. bananalike
  3. bananapants
  4. bananaphile
  5. bananaphiles
  6. bananaphobia
  7. bananaquit
  8. bananaquits
  9. bananaries
  10. bananarita
  11. bananaritas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bananaphobia (page history and authors); bananaphobia (Tamil 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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