Citations:ophiophobic

Adjective: "afraid of snakes"

 * 1900, Charles Conrad Abbott, In Nature's Realm, Albert Brandt (1900), page 215:
 * Not yet has the ophiophobic bacillus been discovered.
 * 1986, Nature Canada, Volumes 15-17, unnumbered page:
 * The red-sided garter snake, while harmless to all but the most ophiophobic of humans, is a fearsome predator of frogs, salamanders and slugs.
 * 2000, Mick Martin & Marsha Porter, Video Movie Guide 2001, Ballantine Bokos (2000), ISBN 9780345420992, page 895:
 * Not for the ophiophobic, this made-for-cable original features rattlesnakes running amok in a small town, mediocre acting (on the humans' part, that is), dull dialogue, and laughable scenes in snake-o-vision.
 * 2001, Zilles Klaus, Rolando Hinojosa: A Reader's Guide, University of New Mexico Press (2001), ISBN 9780826322753, page 115:
 * The episode, related in VARONES (77-83), explores a side of Jehú that is of the utmost relevance for the characterization of this picaro and his relationship with his masters as it highlights Jehú's devotion to Brother Imás when the boy — previously described as uncommonly ophiophobic — snatches the rattler away from the preacher's leg, strangles it, and stomps on its head until he is dragged away by farm workers.
 * 2005, Alec Worley, Empires of the Imagination: A Critical Survey of Fantasy Cinema from Georges Méliès to The Lord of the Rings, McFarland & Co, (2005), ISBN 9780786423248, page 215:
 * The ophiophobic Indy also has a touchingly neurotic streak (played down in later films), which counterbalances the mounting absurdity of his relentless adventures.
 * 2012 May, Randall Munroe, “Every Major’s Terrible” ,
 * I’m too ophiophobic to consider herpetology