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1. Phoenix
   HMS Phoenix was a British Parthian Class submarine of 1475 tons displacement launched in 1929 that saw action during the Second World War before being lost in August 1940. HMS Phoenix was armed with one 4-inch gun; two machine-guns and eight 21-inch torpedo tubes. She had a top speed of 17.5 knots s...
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2. Phoenix
   (Date Palm) These are Palms that are grown for their ornamental foliage. They grow wild in several different parts of the world such as northern Africa, India, China, and the Canary Islands. The Date Palm, P. dactylifera, forms sturdy trunks that are covered with the stumps of dead leaves. They can ...
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3. Phoenix
   [n] - a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa 2. [n] - a legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix 3. [n] - a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor 4. ...
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4. Phoenix
   In Greek legend, the son of Amyntor and Cleobule. He quarrelled with his father, having seduced his father's mistress, and fled to Phthia, where he became tutor to Achilles. ...
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5. phoenix
   In Egyptian and Oriental mythology, a sacred bird born from the sun. The Egyptians believed it was also connected with the soul and the obelisk. In China the phoenix signified good and its...
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6. Phoenix
   (operating system) 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)...
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7. phoenix
   a British spotter drone Category: Defense
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8. phoenix
   1. Same as Phenix. ... 2. <botany> A genus of palms including the date tree. ... Origin: L, a fabulous bird. See Phenix. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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9. phoenix
   genus Phoenix noun a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa
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10. Phoenix
    capital of Arizona noun 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
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11. Phoenix
    noun a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor
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12. phoenix
    noun 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
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13. Phoenix
    • (n.) A genus of palms including the date tree. • (n.) Same as Phenix.
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14. phoenix
    (from the article `drachma`) When Greece finally achieved its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1828, the phoenix was introduced as the monetary unit; its use was ...
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15. Phoenix
    (from the article `Stevens, John`) ...the American inventor Robert Fulton successfully launched his own paddle wheeler, the Clermont, in 1807 before Stevens could finish, he persisted ... ...progress was quite rapid. Fulton`s steamboats firmly established Livingston`s monopoly on the Hudson and adjacent rivers and sounds. Another ... ...
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16. Phoenix
    (from the article `palm`) ...Elaeis (oil palm) and Raphia (raffia palm, or jupati) in Africa and America, and Borassus (palmyra palm), Calamus (rattan palm), Hyphaene (doum ... ...earliest recognizable modern families of flowering plants. By the beginning of the Eocene Epoch, nearly 60 million years ago, palms were ... [2 related art...
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17. Phoenix
    (from the article `Mulberry`) ...at great pierheads, called Spuds, that were jacked up and down on legs which rested on the seafloor. These structures were to be sheltered from ...
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18. Phoenix
    in Greek mythology, son of Amyntor, king of Thessalian Hellas. To please his mother, he seduced his father`s concubine. After a violent quarrel ...
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19. Phoenix
    city, seat (1871) of Maricopa county and capital of Arizona, U.S. It lies along the Salt River in the south-central part of the state, about 120 ... [1 related articles]
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20. phoenix
    in ancient Egypt and in classical antiquity, a fabulous bird associated with the worship of the sun. The Egyptian phoenix was said to be as large as ... [1 related articles]
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21. Phoenix
    Phoenix is a English mixed name. The meaning of the name is `Deep Red` Where is it used? The name Phoenix is mainly used In Mythology and In English. From Old English. Alternative meanings (Greek) Mythical Immortal Bird (Egyptian) Mythical Immortal Bird The name Phoenix appears In the name list...
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22. phoenix
    
    • the state capital and largest city of Arizona
    • a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa
    • a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor
    
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23. phoenix
    phoenix, fabulous bird that periodically regenerated itself, used in literature as a symbol of death and resurrection. According to legend, the phoenix lived in Arabia; when it reached the end of its life (500 years), it burned itself on a pyre of flames, and from the ashes a new phoenix arose. As a...
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24. Phoenix
    Phoenix (fē'niks) , Crete: see Phenice 2.
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25. Phoenix
    Phoenix, city (1990 pop. 983,403), state capital and seat of Maricopa co., S Ariz., on the Salt River; inc. 1881. It is the largest city in Arizona, the hub of the rich agricultural region of the Salt River valley, and an important center for research and development, electronics, telecommunications...
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