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phoenix   (TTS Sound)

The noun phoenix has 4 senses

• Phoenix, capital of Arizona -- (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)


• phoenix, genus Phoenix -- (a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa)


• phoenix -- (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)


• Phoenix -- (a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor)