phoenix
English Thesaurus
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 (noun.location)
| instance hypernym | : | state capital, |
| definition | : | the capital city of a political subdivision of a country (noun.location) |
| part meronym | : | arizona, az, grand canyon state, |
| definition | : | a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon (noun.location) |
2. a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor (noun.object)
| instance hypernym | : | constellation, |
| definition | : | a configuration of stars as seen from the earth (noun.object) |
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 (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | mythical being, |
| definition | : | an imaginary being of myth or fable (noun.person) |
4. a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | liliopsid genus, monocot genus, |
| definition | : | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed (noun.plant) |
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