Definitions For Phoenix

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 constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor
• 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 large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa
• A magical bird in ancient stories that lives for 500 years before it burns itself to death and then is born again from its ashes