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Phoenix > define

noun

  • The state capital and largest city located in south central Arizona; situated in a former desert that has become a prosperous agricultural area thanks to irrigation.
  • A large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa.
  • A legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix; according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years.
  • A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor. .
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Phoenix is a masculine given name
  • English: Mythical firebird that dies and is reborn from its own ashes; original symbol of Scorpio  Mythological  
  • Greek: purple