phoenix
(noun)
noun
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
Definition categories: location
2. a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa
Definition categories: plant
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
Definition categories: person
4. a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor
Definition categories: object
Sentences with phoenix as a noun:
- Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.