phoenix
英 ['fiːnɪks]
美['finɪks]
- n. 凤凰；死而复生的人
- n. (Phoenix)人名；(英)菲尼克斯
英英释意
- 1. the state capital and largest city of Arizona; situated in a former desert that has become a prosperous agricultural center thanks to irrigation
- 2. a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa
- 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