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Meaning of phoenix

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  Phoenix
      n 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 [syn:
           {Phoenix}, {capital of Arizona}]
      2: a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found
         in Asia and Africa [syn: {phoenix}, {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

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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