Phœnix Tree

The palm. In Greek, phoinix means both phœnix and palm-tree.

“Now I will believe … that in Arabia

There is one tree, the phœnixʹ throne—one phœnix

At this hour reigneth there.”

Shakespeare: The Tempest, iii. 3.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.