anthophobia

English

Etymology

From antho- +‎ -phobia.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊbiə

Noun

anthophobia (uncountable)

1. Fear of flowers.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 435:

     He must be gaga to have forgotten what she said the last time about her strange anthophobia (somehow stemming from that debauche à trois thirty years ago). Roses she never liked anyway.