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a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa
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a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor
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The constellation "The Phoenix"
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Phoenix (IPA: ) is a minor southern constellation, introduced by Dutch navigators Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, and popularized by Johann Bayer's Uranometria in 1603.
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Phoenix is a genus of about 15-20 species of palms, native from the Canary Islands east across northern and central Africa, the extreme southeast of Europe (Crete), and southern Asia from Turkey east to southern China and Malaysia.
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