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.
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