Phē'nix, n.
(fē'niks), n. [Written also phœnix.] [Fr. phénix, Lat. phœnix, Gr. φοῖνιξ.]
Sense 1. (Gr. Myth.) A bird fabled to exist single, and to rise again from its own ashes, and hence used as an emblem of immortality.
To all the fowls he seems a phenix. Milton.
Sense 2. (Astron.) A southern constellation.