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phoenix
(gcide) | Phenix \Phe"nix\, n.; pl. Phenixes. [L. phoenix, Gr. foi^nix.]
[Written also ph[oe]nix.]
1. (Gr. Myth.) A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed
by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes.
Hence, an emblem of immortality.
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2. (Astron.) A southern constellation.
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3. A marvelous person or thing. [R.] --Latimer.
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4. A person or thing that suffered destruction or defeat and
was restored to its former state.
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to rise like a phoenix, to resume an endeavor after an
apparently final defeat.
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Phoenix
(gcide) | Phoenix \Ph[oe]"nix\ (f[=e]"n[i^]ks), n. [L., a fabulous bird.
See Phenix.]
1. Same as Phenix. --Shak.
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2. (Bot.) [Capitalized] A genus of palms including the date
tree.
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phoenix
(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 |
phoenix
(foldoc) | Phoenix
An operating system, built in BCPL on
top of IBM MVT and later MVS by Cambridge University
Computing Service from 1973 to 1995, which ran on the
university central mainframe. All parts of the system were
named after birds, including Eagle (the job scheduler, also
the nearest pub), Pigeon (the mailer), GCAL (the text
processor) and Wren (the command language), leading to Wren
Libraries (a local pun).
Phoenix was much used by chemists in daytime and by the rest
of the university in the evenings, and was only abandoned in
favour of Unix in 1995; it is one reason Cambridge
made little contribution to Unix until then.
{Computing Service Phoenix closure memo
(http://cam.ac.uk/cs/newsletter/1995/nl183/phoenix.html)}
(2003-12-05)
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phoenix
(devil) | PHOENIX, n. The classical prototype of the modern "small hot bird."
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phoenix tree
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phoenixes
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Phoenix
(gcide) | Phenix \Phe"nix\, n.; pl. Phenixes. [L. phoenix, Gr. foi^nix.]
[Written also ph[oe]nix.]
1. (Gr. Myth.) A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed
by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes.
Hence, an emblem of immortality.
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2. (Astron.) A southern constellation.
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3. A marvelous person or thing. [R.] --Latimer.
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4. A person or thing that suffered destruction or defeat and
was restored to its former state.
[PJC]
to rise like a phoenix, to resume an endeavor after an
apparently final defeat.
[PJC]Phoenix \Ph[oe]"nix\ (f[=e]"n[i^]ks), n. [L., a fabulous bird.
See Phenix.]
1. Same as Phenix. --Shak.
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2. (Bot.) [Capitalized] A genus of palms including the date
tree.
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Phoenix dactylifera
(gcide) | Date \Date\, n.[F. datte, L. dactylus, fr. Gr. ?, prob. not the
same word as da`ktylos finger, but of Semitic origin.] (Bot.)
The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.
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Note: This fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive,
containing a soft pulp, sweet, esculent, and wholesome,
and inclosing a hard kernel.
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Date palm, or Date tree (Bot.), the genus of palms which
bear dates, of which common species is {Ph[oe]nix
dactylifera}. See Illust.
Date plum (Bot.), the fruit of several species of
Diospyros, including the American and Japanese
persimmons, and the European lotus (Diospyros Lotus).
Date shell, or Date fish (Zool.), a bivalve shell, or its
inhabitant, of the genus Pholas, and allied genera. See
Pholas.
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Phoenix sylvestrix
(gcide) | Palm \Palm\, n. [AS. palm, L. palma; -- so named fr. the leaf
resembling a hand. See 1st Palm, and cf. Pam.]
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1. (Bot.) Any endogenous tree of the order Palm[ae] or
Palmace[ae]; a palm tree.
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Note: Palms are perennial woody plants, often of majestic
size. The trunk is usually erect and rarely branched,
and has a roughened exterior composed of the persistent
bases of the leaf stalks. The leaves are borne in a
terminal crown, and are supported on stout, sheathing,
often prickly, petioles. They are usually of great
size, and are either pinnately or palmately many-cleft.
There are about one thousand species known, nearly all
of them growing in tropical or semitropical regions.
The wood, petioles, leaves, sap, and fruit of many
species are invaluable in the arts and in domestic
economy. Among the best known are the date palm, the
cocoa palm, the fan palm, the oil palm, the wax palm,
the palmyra, and the various kinds called cabbage palm
and palmetto.
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2. A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a
symbol of victory or rejoicing.
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A great multitude . . . stood before the throne, and
before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palme
in their hands. --Rev. vii. 9.
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3. Hence: Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or
triumph; also, victory; triumph; supremacy. "The palm of
martyrdom." --Chaucer.
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So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone. --Shak.
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Molucca palm (Bot.), a labiate herb from Asia ({Molucella
l[ae]vis}), having a curious cup-shaped calyx.
Palm cabbage, the terminal bud of a cabbage palm, used as
food.
Palm cat (Zool.), the common paradoxure.
Palm crab (Zool.), the purse crab.
Palm oil, a vegetable oil, obtained from the fruit of
several species of palms, as the African oil palm
(El[ae]is Guineensis), and used in the manufacture of
soap and candles. See El[ae]is.
Palm swift (Zool.), a small swift (Cypselus Batassiensis)
which frequents the palmyra and cocoanut palms in India.
Its peculiar nest is attached to the leaf of the palmyra
palm.
Palm toddy. Same as Palm wine.
Palm weevil (Zool.), any one of mumerous species of very
large weevils of the genus Rhynchophorus. The larv[ae]
bore into palm trees, and are called palm borers, and
grugru worms. They are considered excellent food.
Palm wine, the sap of several species of palms, especially,
in India, of the wild date palm (Ph[oe]nix sylvestrix),
the palmyra, and the Caryota urens. When fermented it
yields by distillation arrack, and by evaporation jaggery.
Called also palm toddy.
Palm worm, or Palmworm. (Zool.)
(a) The larva of a palm weevil.
(b) A centipede.
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to rise like a phoenix
(gcide) | Phenix \Phe"nix\, n.; pl. Phenixes. [L. phoenix, Gr. foi^nix.]
[Written also ph[oe]nix.]
1. (Gr. Myth.) A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed
by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes.
Hence, an emblem of immortality.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Astron.) A southern constellation.
[1913 Webster]
3. A marvelous person or thing. [R.] --Latimer.
[1913 Webster]
4. A person or thing that suffered destruction or defeat and
was restored to its former state.
[PJC]
to rise like a phoenix, to resume an endeavor after an
apparently final defeat.
[PJC] |
genus phoenix
(wn) | genus Phoenix
n 1: a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms
found in Asia and Africa [syn: phoenix, genus Phoenix] |
phoenix dactylifera
(wn) | Phoenix dactylifera
n 1: tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing
sweet edible fruit [syn: date palm, {Phoenix
dactylifera}] |
phoenix tree
(wn) | phoenix tree
n 1: deciduous tree widely grown in southern United States as an
ornamental for its handsome maplelike foliage and long
racemes of yellow-green flowers followed by curious
leaflike pods [syn: Chinese parasol tree, {Chinese
parasol}, Japanese varnish tree, phoenix tree,
Firmiana simplex] |
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