What is the meaning of Phoenix?

noun

• The state capital and largest city located in south central Arizona; situated in a former desert that has become a prosperous agricultural area thanks to irrigation.
  • synonyms: capital of Arizona
• A large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa.
  • synonyms: genus Phoenix
• A legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix; according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years.
• A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor. .