"molluscophobia" meaning in English

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          "text": "Mrs. Blethering herself was not overly bright but, worse yet, was afflicted by molluscophobia (a fear of slugs and snails), which might explain why she devised ever more gruesome methods of slug assassination.",
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          "ref": "2016, Tim Wharton, Richard Horsey, “Ugly Fish”, in Ugly Food: Overlooked and Undercooked, London: C. Hurst & Co., pages 132–133",
          "text": "A recent estimate suggests that 10,000 tonnes of whelks are landed in the UK each year. But nearly all of those get exported to South-East Asia. Why? Molluscophobia? Possibly.",
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          "text": "For years I had been carrying the burden of molluscophobia, an extreme fear of snails. The presence of a snail could reduce me to an uncontrollable and quivering wreck within seconds.",
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