PHOENIX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Phoenix mean? 

• PHOENIX (noun)
  The noun PHOENIX has 4 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: PHOENIX used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOENIX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Arizona; Phoenix

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

Holonyms ("Phoenix" is a part of...):

Arizona; AZ; Grand Canyon State (a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Phoenix; phoenix

Hypernyms ("phoenix" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Holonyms ("phoenix" is a member of...):

Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; family Palmaceae; family Palmae; palm family; Palmaceae; Palmae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("phoenix" is a kind of...):

mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

 Context examples 

Researchers at the Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch (PECRB), studied 12 men and women with obesity in the facility’s metabolic unit.

(Ease of weight loss influenced by individual biology, NIH)

I also became once more known to his sister, Miss Micawber, in whom, as Mr. Micawber told us, “her mother renewed her youth, like the Phoenix”.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You haven’t, and you are about to rise like a phoenix very soon, possibly in January.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"It is a story akin to the phoenix rising from the ashes, and the study answers an important question in evolution," said Bhattacharya.

(Red seaweeds, including those in sushi, thrive despite ancestor's loss of genes, National Science Foundation)

Researchers from the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona and the University of California, San Diego, have proposed at least 3 different ways that the brain might encode episodic memories.

(Storing memories of recent events, NIH)

These regions near the poles have been studied by NASA's Phoenix lander, which scraped up ice, and MRO, which has taken many images from space of meteor impacts that have excavated this ice.

(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)

The huge trees of the alluvial Amazonian plain gave place to the Phoenix and coco palms, growing in scattered clumps, with thick brushwood between.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Led by scientists at the Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch, the team studied a total of nine men and women with obesity who resided in the Branch’s metabolic ward on two separate visits, each for eight days.

(Brain stimulation limits calories consumed in adults with obesity, NIH)

This treatment, performed in an outpatient setting by an interventional radiologist, can safely relieve a child's migraine quickly, said Robin Kaye, MD, section chief of interventional radiology in the department of medical imaging at Phoenix Children's Hospital and a co-author of the study.

(Innovative Treatment Offers Relief to Children with Frequent Migraine Headaches, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The research group, which included experts from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, and Arizona State University, Phoenix, originally set out to find whether drugs used to treat other diseases can be repurposed for treating Alzheimer’s.

(Viruses may play a role in Alzheimer’s disease, National Institutes of Health)