phalange

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French phalange.

noun

  1. (obsolete) A phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.).
  2. (anatomy) A phalanx ("one of the bones of the finger or toe").
  3. (zoology) Any of the joints of an insect's tarsus.
  4. (botany) A bundle of stamens joined by their filaments.
  5. 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

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