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myrmecophobia

myrmecophobia noun: the fear of ants.

Noun

myrmecophobia (uncountable)

  1. The fear of ants.
    • Ants are a special kind of bug. I think they are easily squashed by the foot; I'm sure I've unintentionally squashed a number of them with my feet in my adult life, and when I was a young child I believe I used to squash an occasional ant either for sport or more likely as a reaction to some...2001 January 30, R Fontana, “Re: nat”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet)
    • Possibly it was fear of ants, which by the way, is myrmecophobia.2007, Claire Cook, Life's a Beach, Hyperion, →ISBN, page 134

myrmecophobia meaning in Tamil

myrmecophobia in Tamil

எறும்பு வெருளி

Origin of myrmecophobia

From myrmeco- + -phobia.

Questions about myrmecophobia

What does myrmecophobia mean?
Myrmecophobia means the fear of ants.
What is myrmecophobia in Tamil?
Myrmecophobia in Tamil is எறும்பு வெருளி. See Myrmecophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is myrmecophobia?
Myrmecophobia is a noun.

Words near myrmecophobia in the dictionary

  1. myrmecophilic
  2. myrmecophilism
  3. myrmecophilous
  4. myrmecophily
  5. myrmecophitic
  6. myrmecophobia
  7. myrmecophobic
  8. myrmecophyte
  9. myrmecophytes
  10. myrmecophytic
  11. myrmecophytism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: myrmecophobia (page history and authors); myrmecophobia (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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