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phenixes


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  2.  (Astron.)  A  southern  constellation. 
 
  3.  A  marvelous  person  or  thing  [R.]  --Latimer.