Definitions

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  • noun rare A morbid fear of trees.

Etymologies

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From dendro- + -phobia.

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Examples

  • This happened a couple of years ago at a small Super Bowl party I was at where I only knew a couple people and people thought I was funnier than a beaver with dendrophobia.

    drbigbeef Diary Entry drbigbeef 2007

  • You'll come to know these blocks well as a student, but unless you suffer from dendrophobia, it's perhaps the best part of Portland State's semi-urban scenery. 


    Daily Vanguard RSS 2010

  • Evidently, plants are regarded as much more docile and less threatening than other organisms: anthophobia flowers, plants hylophobia forests, woods dendrophobia trees lachanophobia vegetables

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1 1983

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  • JM can't fear the forest for his dendrophobia.

    January 9, 2010