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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