Definition of Phoenixes

1. Noun. (plural of phoenix) ¹

2. Noun. (plural of phœnix) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Phoenixes

1. phoenix [n] - See also: phoenix

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phoenixes

phocomelias
phocomelic dwarfism
phocomelus
phodopus
phoebe
phoebe bird
phoebes
phoebus
phoebuses
phoenicochroite
phoenicochroites
phoenicopterus
phoenix
phoenix tree
phoenixes (current term)
phoenixlike
phoetal
phoeti
phoetus
phoetuses
phogrin
phoh
phohs
pholad
pholadean
pholades
pholads
pholas
pholcodine

Literary usage of Phoenixes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Book of the Secrets of Enoch by William Richard Morfill, Robert Henry Charles (1896)
"ADDITIONAL NOTE ON THE phoenixes. WHEN I wrote the note on the phoenixes in XII. II was not aware that mention of a class of these birds was to be found ..."

2. China: Its History, Arts and Literature by Frank Brinkley (1902)
"Dishes with, outside, lotus flowers and dragons and phoenixes flying through flowers, the fir, bamboo, and plum, historical scenes with inscriptions in ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"phoenixes differ from all other pinnate-leaved palms in having the Ivs. ... The raising of phoenixes from seed is done on a large seule on the Riviera. ..."

4. The Poems of John Donne by John Donne, James Russell Lowell, Grolier Club (1895)
"... two phoenixes; Thou mak'st a taper see What the sun never saw; ... one bed contains, through thee, Two phoenixes, whose joined breasts Are unto one ..."

5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"phoenixes differ from all other pinnate-lvd. palms in having the Ivs. folded upward ... P. canariensis is the noblest of all phoenixes, and one of the most ..."

6. Terry's Japanese Empire by Thomas Philip Terry (1914)
"The surfaces are skillfully chased with phoenixes, crests, and what-not. On one of the fusuma is a virile and resplendent peacock standing on the mottled, ..."

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