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Meanings of Phoenicia:
proper nounAn ancient country on the shores of the eastern mediterranean, corresponding to modern lebanon and the coastal plains of syria. it consisted of a number of city states, including tyre and sidon, and was a flourishing centre of mediterranean trade and colonization during the early part of the 1st millennium bc.
Meanings of Phoenician:
nounA member of a semitic people inhabiting ancient phoenicia and its colonies. the phoenicians prospered from trade and manufacturing until the capital, tyre, was sacked by alexander the great in 332 bc.
Usage examples:
Once the trade capital of east africa, zanzibar attracted sumerians, assyrians, phoenicians, arabs,…
adjectiveRelating to phoenicia, its people, or its language.
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The phoenician colony of carthage became an imperial centre in its own right, and greek cities such…
Meanings of Phoenicianism:
nounPhoenician culture, ideas, etc.
Meanings of Phoenicians:
nounA member of a semitic people inhabiting ancient phoenicia and its colonies. the phoenicians prospered from trade and manufacturing until the capital, tyre, was sacked by alexander the great in 332 bc.
Usage examples:
Once the trade capital of east africa, zanzibar attracted sumerians, assyrians, phoenicians, arabs,…
adjectiveRelating to phoenicia, its people, or its language.
Usage examples:
The phoenician colony of carthage became an imperial centre in its own right, and greek cities such…
Meanings of Phoenicochroite:
nounA mineral of the monoclinic crystal system which consists of an oxide of lead and chromium, pb₂ cro₅, and occurs as dark red masses.
Meanings of Phoenix:
noun(in classical mythology) a unique bird that lived for five or six centuries in the arabian desert, after this time burning itself on a funeral pyre and rising from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle.
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The award is named in recognition of the mythological phoenix, a bird that lived five centuries, di…
proper nounA southern constellation (the phoenix), west of grus.
adjectiveUsed with preceding greek letter or numeral to designate a star in the constellation phoenix.
Usage examples:
The star delta phoenicis
Meanings of Phoenixes:
noun(in classical mythology) a unique bird that lived for five or six centuries in the arabian desert, after this time burning itself on a funeral pyre and rising from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle.
Usage examples:
The award is named in recognition of the mythological phoenix, a bird that lived five centuries, di…
proper nounA southern constellation (the phoenix), west of grus.
adjectiveUsed with preceding greek letter or numeral to designate a star in the constellation phoenix.
Usage examples:
The star delta phoenicis
Meanings of Pholad:
nounA burrowing bivalve mollusc of the genus pholas or family pholadidae.
Meanings of Pholadid:
nounA bivalve mollusc of the family pholadidae, which comprises the piddocks.
Meanings of Pholadoid:
adjectiveOf, relating to, or resembling a pholad.
Meanings of Pholas:
nounThe common piddock (mollusc).
Usage examples:
If the reader will examine the outside of a pholas shell, he will find it studded, in regular rows,…
Meanings of Pholcid:
nounAny of numerous spiders constituting the family pholcidae, which have relatively small bodies and very long legs.
adjectiveOf or relating to the family pholcidae.
Meanings of Pholidolite:
nounA mineral said to consist of an aluminosilicate of iron, magnesium, and potassium, occurring as minute scales.
Meanings of Pholidosis:
nounThe arrangement of scales on a reptile.
Meanings of Pholidota:
plural nounA small order of mammals that comprises the pangolins.
Usage examples:
Attempts to resolve the relationships of xenarthra and pholidota to other eutherian mammals have no…
Meanings of Pholidote:
adjectiveOriginally: covered with scales, scaly. now only: specifically of or relating to the mammalian order pholidota, comprising the pangolins or scaly anteaters.
nounA mammal of the order pholidota; a pangolin.
Meanings of Phomopsis:
nounA genus of plant-parasitic mitosporic (imperfect) fungi, members of which are anamorphic forms of the genus diaporthe (family valsaceae) and cause leaf spots, fruit rots, and stem cankers in susceptible hosts; (also phomopsis) a fungus of this genus; disease caused by such a fungus.
Meanings of Phon:
nounA unit of the perceived loudness of sounds.
Usage examples:
Coincidentally, one phon is approximately the smallest detectable difference in loudness.
Meanings of Phonal:
adjectiveRelating to vocal sound; phonetic.
Meanings of Phonate:
verbProduce or utter speech sounds.
Usage examples:
She was unable to phonate clearly or protrude the tongue
Meanings of Phonated:
verbProduce or utter speech sounds.
Usage examples:
She was unable to phonate clearly or protrude the tongue
Meanings of Phonates:
verbProduce or utter speech sounds.
Usage examples:
She was unable to phonate clearly or protrude the tongue
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