"pteridophobia" meaning in English

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          "text": "The last time Stanley and I sat on the Spoon’s back porch, he’d photographed the ferns and wondered how anyone with pteridophobia (he informed me that meant a morbid fear of ferns) could live in the Pacific Northwest since ferns thrived in the sodden, dark, and mild climate.",
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