phalange meaning (obsolete): definition, etymology and quotations

phalange

noun

UK /ˈfælændʒ/ · US /ˈfeɪlændʒ/

Etymology From Middle English phalange, from Middle French phalange, from Old French phalange, from Latin phalanx (accusative phalangem), from Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx). Doublet of phalanx, planch, plancha, planche, and plank.

Obsolete Synonym of phalanx (“group of soldiers, people etc.”).

Anatomy, Medicine, Sciences Synonym of phalanx (“one of the bones of the finger or toe”).

Biology, Natural sciences, Zoology Any of the joints of an insect's tarsus.

Biology, Botany, Natural sciences A bundle of stamens joined by their filaments.

A phalanstery.

The office of an Unarch is therefore but an honourable title. What can political authority be applied to in the Phalange, where all means of violence are absolutely useless, where no clashing interests, no enemies exist; […]1910, Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovskiĭ, Modern Socialism in Its Historical Development, page 164:

Derived terms: distal phalange, intermediate phalange, middle phalange, phalangeal, phalangigrade, polyphalange, proximal phalange