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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
資料來源 : WordNet®
Phoenix
n 1: the state capital and largest city of Arizona; situated in a
former desert that has become a prosperous agricultural
center thanks to irrigation [syn: {capital of Arizona}]
2: a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found
in Asia and Africa [syn: {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