Definitions
A mythical bird that burns and rises again from its ashes.
Word origin
From Old English and Old French fenix, from Medieval Latin phenix, from Latin phoenīx, from Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ (phoînix), from Egyptian b-n:nw*w-G31 (boinu, “grey heron”). Doublet of Bennu. The grey heron was venerated at Heliopolis and associated in Egypt with the cyclical renewal of life because the bird rises in flight at dawn and migrates back every year in the flood season to inhabit the Nile waters.
Used in a sentence
“burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood”
“Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.”
“Lord Allerton was that modern phœnix, a young man, without a single objection.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Mythical reborn bird”7 letters
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