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ichthyophobe

ichthyophobe noun: a person afflicted with ichthyophobia.

Noun

ichthyophobe (plural ichthyophobes)

  1. A person afflicted with ichthyophobia.
    • To-day, when fish no longer inhabited its tanks, it was a by-word; it was a failure in every other direction; it was despised by its owners. So abject was its condition that recently efforts had actually been made by a hardened and determined ichthyophobe named Clayton to convert it into a garage...1922 September 20, E. V. L., “The Fishes’ Revenge”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume 163, page 286

Forms of ichthyophobe

pluralichthyophobes

Origin of ichthyophobe

From ichthyo- + -phobe.

Questions about ichthyophobe

What does ichthyophobe mean?
Ichthyophobe means a person afflicted with ichthyophobia.
What part of speech is ichthyophobe?
Ichthyophobe is a noun.
What is the plural of ichthyophobe?
The plural of ichthyophobe is ichthyophobes.

Words near ichthyophobe in the dictionary

  1. ichthyophagy
  2. ichthyophiid
  3. ichthyophiids
  4. ichthyophile
  5. ichthyophiles
  6. ichthyophobe
  7. ichthyophobes
  8. ichthyophobia
  9. ichthyophobic
  10. ichthyophthalmite
  11. ichthyophthiriases

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