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A right-wing Lebanese paramilitary movement based somewhat on the Spanish Falange.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Synonym of phalanx (“group of soldiers, people etc.”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Synonym of phalanx (“one of the bones of the finger or toe”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
Any of the joints of an insect's tarsus.
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
A bundle of stamens joined by their filaments.
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Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
A phalanstery.
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History
From French Phalange, from phalange (“phalanx”).
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.
