资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Phenix \Phe"nix\, n.; pl. {Phenixes}. [L. phoenix, Gr. foi^nix.]
   [Written also {ph[oe]nix}.]
   1. (Gr. Myth.) A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed
      by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes.
      Hence, an emblem of immortality.

   2. (Astron.) A southern constellation.

   3. A marvelous person or thing. [R.] --Latimer.