Definitions
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- noun rare A morbid
fear oftrees .
Etymologies
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From dendro- + -phobia.
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Examples
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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
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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
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Evidently, plants are regarded as much more docile and less threatening than other organisms: anthophobia flowers, plants hylophobia forests, woods dendrophobia trees lachanophobia vegetables
jmjarmstrong commented on the word dendrophobia
JM can't fear the forest for his dendrophobia.
January 9, 2010