Word Meanings - ARABIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants. Arabian bird, the phenix. Shak.
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- PHENIX
A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes. Hence, an emblem of immortality. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - ARABIAN
Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants. Arabian bird, the phenix. Shak. - APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach