Phoenix - Definition
phoenix
n 1: 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 [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
4: a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and
Sculptor