Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“φοῖνιξ” B.1):—purple-red, crimson, and (generally) red, “νέφος” Xenoph.32.2; “ῥόδα” Pi.I.4(3).18(36); “προμαχεῶνες” Hdt.1.98; “εἷμα” Id.2.132, cf. 7.76, 9.22; “ὄνυχες” Hp.Int.29; σύκινα φ., a variety of fig, PCair.Zen.33.12 intr. (iii B.C.); metaph., blushing, “αἰδώς” Erinn.Fr.i B 34 Diehl2; contr. φοινι_κοῦς , ῆ, οῦν, Hp. Mul.1.95, X.An.1.2.16, Cyr.7.1.2, Arist.HA592b24, Dsc.3.153; “σκηναί” Plb.6.41.7; χιτών, as signal for battle, Plu.Pomp.68, Brut.40; “γράμματα” D.C.40.18; “τὸ φ.” dark red, Arist.Metaph.1057a25, al.; less bright than τὸ ἁλουργές, Id.Col.792a14 (φοινικά must be corrected to φοινικᾶ in Dsc.2.176, cf. Suid. s.v. φοινικᾶ (but φοινικιᾶ Id. s.v. ἁπλᾶ)).

II. prob. f.l. for Φοινικικός, Thphr.HP3.12.3.