"xanthophobia" meaning in English

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          "text": "For example, early Christian examples of xanthophobia, or fear of the color yellow, have been given artistic expression in the numerous examples depicting Judas Iscariot dressed in yellow betraying in the Garden of Gethsemane with a treacherous kiss [...]",
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          "text": "For example, he construed from my xanthophobia that I must first have serialised my reminiscences in the yellow-backed Holywell Street Journal, of dubious and questionable memory.",
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          "text": "In contrast, loggerhead hatchlings showed an aversion to light in the green-yellow to yellow region of the spectrum (560 to 600 nm) (Figure 5.2). Although this xanthophobia (yellow light aversion) is unique to loggerheads, green turtles are less strongly attracted to yellow light than to light of other wavelengths."
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