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PHOENIX

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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 irrigationplay

Synonyms:

capital of Arizona; Phoenix

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

Holonyms ("Phoenix" is a part of...):

Arizona; AZ; Grand Canyon State (a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptorplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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 yearsplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("phoenix" is a kind of...):

mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africaplay

Synonyms:

genus Phoenix; phoenix

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("phoenix" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Holonyms ("phoenix" is a member of...):

Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; family Palmaceae; family Palmae; palm family; Palmaceae; Palmae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales)

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 Context examples: 

But as I was out of all fear of being ill-treated under the protection of so great and good an empress, the ornament of nature, the darling of the world, the delight of her subjects, the phoenix of the creation, so I hoped my late master’s apprehensions would appear to be groundless; for I already found my spirits revive, by the influence of her most august presence.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)




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