1. 凤凰；不死鸟
A phoenix is an imaginary bird which, according to ancient stories, burns itself to ashes every five hundred years and is then born again.

2. 起死回生的人（或物）
If you describe someone or something as a phoenix, you mean that they return again after seeming to disappear or be destroyed.

1. a legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix
according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years

2. a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa

Synonym: genus Phoenix