phoenix🔊

(mythology) A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.

(figuratively) Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.

(Chinese mythology) A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.

(historical) A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.

(obsolete) A marvelous person or thing.

A geometer moth of species Eulithis prunata.

(Australia) To transfer assets from one company to another to dodge liability.