Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Phoenix"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Phenix \Phe"nix\, n.; pl. {Phenixes}. [L. phoenix, Gr. foi^nix.]
[Written also {ph[oe]nix}.]
1. (Gr. Myth.) A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed
by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes.
Hence, an emblem of immortality.
2. (Astron.) A southern constellation.
3. A marvelous person or thing. [R.] --Latimer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Phoenix \Ph[oe]"nix\, n. [L., a fabulous bird. See {Phenix}.]
1. Same as {Phenix}. --Shak.
2. (Bot.) A genus of palms including the date tree.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Phoenix
n 1: the state capital and largest city of Arizona [syn: {Phoenix},
{capital of Arizona}]
2: a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found
in Asia and Africa [syn: {Phoenix}, {genus Phoenix}]
3: 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 [syn: {Phoenix}]
4: a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and
Sculptor [syn: {Phoenix}]
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