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mycophobic

mycophobic adjective: having or relating to an aversion to mushrooms or fungi.

Adjective

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
    • 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 of mycophobic

Forms of mycophobic

comparativemore mycophobic
superlativemost mycophobic

Origin of mycophobic

From myco- + -phobic.

Questions about mycophobic

What does mycophobic mean?
Mycophobic means having or relating to an aversion to mushrooms or fungi.
What part of speech is mycophobic?
Mycophobic is an adjective.

Words near mycophobic in the dictionary

  1. mycophilic
  2. mycophilous
  3. mycophobe
  4. mycophobes
  5. mycophobia
  6. mycophobic
  7. mycophycobiont
  8. mycophycobionts
  9. mycophycobioses
  10. mycophycobiosis
  11. mycoplankton

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