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Meanings of Phoenicia:

proper noun

An 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:

noun

A 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,…

adjective

Relating 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 Phoenicianism:

noun

Phoenician culture, ideas, etc.

Meanings of Phoenicians:

noun

A 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,…

adjective

Relating 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:

noun

A 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 Phoenicopter:

noun

A flamingo.

Meanings of Phoenicopterous:

noun

A flamingo.

Meanings of Phoenicopterus:

noun

A flamingo.

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.

Usage examples:

The award is named in recognition of the mythological phoenix, a bird that lived five centuries, di…

proper noun

A southern constellation (the phoenix), west of grus.

adjective

Used 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 noun

A southern constellation (the phoenix), west of grus.

adjective

Used with preceding greek letter or numeral to designate a star in the constellation phoenix.

Usage examples:

The star delta phoenicis

Meanings of Pholad:

noun

A burrowing bivalve mollusc of the genus pholas or family pholadidae.

Meanings of Pholadid:

noun

A bivalve mollusc of the family pholadidae, which comprises the piddocks.

Meanings of Pholadoid:

adjective

Of, relating to, or resembling a pholad.

Meanings of Pholas:

noun

The 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:

noun

Any of numerous spiders constituting the family pholcidae, which have relatively small bodies and very long legs.

adjective

Of or relating to the family pholcidae.

Meanings of Pholidolite:

noun

A mineral said to consist of an aluminosilicate of iron, magnesium, and potassium, occurring as minute scales.

Meanings of Pholidosis:

noun

The arrangement of scales on a reptile.

Meanings of Pholidota:

plural noun

A 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:

adjective

Originally: covered with scales, scaly. now only: specifically of or relating to the mammalian order pholidota, comprising the pangolins or scaly anteaters.

noun

A mammal of the order pholidota; a pangolin.

Meanings of Phomopsis:

noun

A 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:

noun

A unit of the perceived loudness of sounds.

Usage examples:

Coincidentally, one phon is approximately the smallest detectable difference in loudness.

Meanings of Phonal:

adjective

Relating to vocal sound; phonetic.

Meanings of Phonate:

verb

Produce or utter speech sounds.

Usage examples:

She was unable to phonate clearly or protrude the tongue

Meanings of Phonated:

verb

Produce or utter speech sounds.

Usage examples:

She was unable to phonate clearly or protrude the tongue

Meanings of Phonates:

verb

Produce or utter speech sounds.

Usage examples:

She was unable to phonate clearly or protrude the tongue