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xylophobia

xylophobia noun: a fear of wooden objects.

Noun

xylophobia (uncountable)

  1. A fear of wooden objects.
    • Related to dendrophobia but less well known are hylophobia (fear of forests), nyctohylophobia (fear of dark wooded areas or forests at night) and xylophobia (fear of wooden objects).2013, Peter Young, Oak, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 118
  2. A fear of forests.

xylophobia meaning in Tamil

xylophobia in Tamil

மர வெருளி, கானக வெருளி

Origin of xylophobia

From xylo- + -phobia.

Questions about xylophobia

What does xylophobia mean?
Xylophobia means a fear of wooden objects.
What is xylophobia in Tamil?
Xylophobia in Tamil is மர வெருளி, கானக வெருளி. See Xylophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is xylophobia?
Xylophobia is a noun.

Words near xylophobia in the dictionary

  1. xylophene
  2. xylophilan
  3. xylophilans
  4. xylophilic
  5. xylophilous
  6. xylophobia
  7. xylophone
  8. xylophoned
  9. xylophonelike
  10. xylophones
  11. xylophonic

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