Phalange vs. Phalanx

Phalangenoun

(obsolete) A phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.).

Phalangenoun

(anatomy) A phalanx.

Phalangenoun

(zoology) Any of the joints of an insect's tarsus.

Phalangenoun

(botany) A bundle of stamens joined by their filaments.

Phalangenoun

another term for phalanx (sense 2)

Phalangenoun

a right-wing Maronite party in Lebanon founded in 1936 by Pierre Gemayel.

Phalanxnoun

An ancient Greek and Macedonian military unit that consisted of several ranks and files (lines) of soldiers in close array with joined shields and long spears.

Phalanxnoun

(historical sociology) A Fourierite utopian community; a phalanstery.

Phalanxnoun

(plural phalanxes) A large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose.

Phalanxnoun

One of the bones of the finger or toe.

Phalanxnoun

A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men.

Phalanxnoun

Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of a union.

Phalanxnoun

A Fourierite community; a phalanstery.

Phalanxnoun

One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the metacarpus or metatarsus; an internode.

Phalanxnoun

A group or bundle of stamens, as in polyadelphous flowers.

Phalanxnoun

any of the bones (or phalanges) of the fingers or toes

Phalanxnoun

any closely ranked crowd of people

Phalanxnoun

a body of troops in close array

Phalanx

The phalanx (Ancient Greek: φάλαγξ; plural phalanxes or phalanges, φάλαγγες, phalanges) was a rectangular mass military formation, usually composed entirely of heavy infantry armed with spears, pikes, sarissas, or similar pole weapons. The term is particularly used to describe the use of this formation in Ancient Greek warfare, although the ancient Greek writers used it to also describe any massed infantry formation, regardless of its equipment.