Answer: phoenixes

AnswerCrossword Clue
PHOENIXESUnique birds
phoenixesPHOENIX, a mythical bird, also PHENIX
phoenixes(in classical mythology) A unique bird that lived for five or six centuries in the Arabian desert, after this time burning itself on a funeral pyre and rising from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle
phoenixesA person or thing regarded as uniquely remarkable in some respect