phalanxn.

Brit.

/ˈfalaŋks/, U.S.

/ˈfeɪˌlæŋks/

Inflections: Plural phalanges Brit.

/fəˈlan(d)ʒiːz/, U.S.

/fəˈlændʒiz/,

/feɪˈlændʒiz/, (chiefly in senses 1 and 2) phalanxes.

Forms: 1500s– phalanx, 1600s falanx.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin phalang-, phalanx.

Etymology: < classical Latin phalang-, phalanx body of heavy-armed infantry drawn up in close order, in post-classical Latin also body of people in general (4th cent.), row of bones in each finger (1679 or earlier) < ancient Greek ϕαλαγγ- , ϕάλαγξ body of heavy-armed infantry drawn up in close order, round piece of wood, trunk, log, bone of the finger or toe, kind of venomous spider < the same Indo-European base as balk n.¹ Compare Middle French, French phalange body of heavy-armed infantry drawn up in close order (1213 in Old French as phalenge ; 17th cent. in extended use of any body of troops or of people banded together), bone of the finger or toe (1603), phalanstery community (1808), Catalan falange (15th cent. as falanja ), Spanish falange (1442 as falanja ), Italian falange (a1292 as falangia ). In sense 4b after German Phalanx (O. Deiters 1860, in Zeitschr. f. wissenschaftliche Zool. 10 8). Compare earlier phalange n.¹ With sense 3 compare earlier phalange n.², phalangium n.In some instances, it is not possible to determine whether phalanges shows the plural of phalanx n. or of phalange n.¹

1. Originally: (Ancient Greek History) a line or array of battle; spec. a body of heavy-armed infantry drawn up in close order, with shields touching and long spears overlapping. Now also more widely: any compact body of troops, police, etc.The Macedonian army was especially famous for the effectiveness of its phalanxes. See Macedonian phalanx n. at Macedonian n.¹ and adj.¹ Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > compact formation

sheltronc1000

phalangea1460

phalanx1553

stand of pikes1587

1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. iv. f. 59^v [Alexander] deuided hys Phalanx..into two battayles [L. phalangem..in duo cornua extenderat], and empaled the same wyth horsemen.

a1625 J. Fletcher Bonduca ii. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Gggg4/2 Youth and fire, like the fair breaking of a glorious day, guilded their Falanx.

1699 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iii. vi. 63 Their [sc. the Macedonians] Phalanx is describ'd by Polybius to be a square Battail of Pike-men, consisting of sixteen in Flank, and five-hundred in Front.

1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xv. 744 The Grecian Phalanx moveless as a Tow'r, On all sides batter'd, yet resists his Pow'r.

1766 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) I. i. 26 The strength of the phalanx was unable to contend with the activity of the legion.

1814 Columbian Centinel (Boston) 15 June 2/3 On Monday the Charlestown Warren Phalanx paraded.

1862 T. C. Grattan Beaten Paths I. 185 Noble veterans.., the remnant of those phalanxes which maintained the pride and power of England in so many a hard-fought field.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 717/2 Their [sc. the Murabtis] main force was infantry,..formed into a phalanx and supported by camelmen.

1977 Western Morning News 30 Aug. 1/3 I had to run bent double past a police phalanx protected by their riot shields.

2003 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 16 Dec. 1 After eight months of frustrating searches..a phalanx of heavily armed U.S. troops made their historic discovery.

a. A number or set of persons, etc., banded together for a common purpose, esp. in support of or in opposition to some cause; a united front; (also) the union so formed. in phalanx: unitedly, in combination.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > [noun] > a community > other types of community

churchOE

phalanx1602

republic1610

phalanstery1839

faith community1896

technocracy1925

plural community1939

Dogpatch1946

discourse community1972

society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > a factionary or partisan > body of

sect1450

phalanx1602

camp1885

society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [adverb] > with unity of action or purpose

togetherc1330

togethersa1387

in phalanx1817

solidarily1870

1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 239 To encounter this Hispanised Camelion Parsons, with all his Africanian phalanges and Iesuiticall forces.

1772 Polit. Reg. 11 168 The ministerial phalanx, it seems, is to be irreparably weakened by your loss.

1810 T. Jefferson Let. 12 Aug. in Writings (1984) 1228 And should difficulties occur which they cannot avert, if we follow them in phalanx, we shall surmount them without danger.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India III. vi. i. 32 On this occasion, the crown lawyers opposed in phalanx.

1881 A. Trollope Dr. Wortle's School I. ix. 165 He knew that the Bishop and the Bishop's phalanx would be against him.

1903 J. Morley Life Gladstone I. iv. ii. 471 A new minister, who..did not shrink from sconcing the powerful landed phalanx like other people.

1992 W. Greider Who will tell People III. xv. 342 Barrie made a nifty end run around the phalanx of corporate lobbyists who were on the other side of the tax-leasing issue.

b. A compact body of people, animals, or (occasionally) things, esp. one ordered or arranged in a regular pattern.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > cluster > compact body of people or animals

sop?a1400

plump?a1425

globe1610

phalanx1654

noyau1965

1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. vii. 237 The hand..grasping a Nettle, is injured by that phalanx of villous stings, wherewith Nature hath guarded the leaves thereof.

1733 A. Pope Ess. Man iii. 108 Who forms the Phalanx [of migrating storks], and who points the Way?

1785 W. Cowper Needless Alarm 48 The sheep..All huddling into phalanx, stood and gaz'd.

1837 W. H. Ainsworth Crichton I. 237 A dense phalanx of cavaliers and dames of every age and rank.

1891 ‘L. Falconer’ Mademoiselle Ixe 25 Sheltered from the north by high red walls and a phalanx of elms.

1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. ii. 46 Now, far down the shadowy line of University Place a white-clad phalanx broke the gloom.

1994 Denver Post 16 Jan. t1/1 ‘Welcome aboard,’ chimed a phalanx of stewards in crisp nautical whites.

†c. A Fourierist community living in a phalanstery. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > [noun] > non-Marxist or Leninist communism > involving socialistic communities > community of

community1813

communism1840

phalanx1840

Concordium1841

phalanstère1842

phalanstery1850

commune1875

1840 A. Brisbane Social Destiny of Man xiii. 195 The Phalanx is the universal employer.

1842 R. W. Emerson in Dial July Now fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these phalanxes.

1845 Xenia (Ohio) Torch-light 31 July 2/4 Numerous ‘Phalanxes’ have been established throughout the country, but in no instance that has fallen under our eye has one of them stood the test of experience.

†3. More fully phalanx spider. A venomous spider; = phalangium n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > unspecified type > venomous

phalangium1542

phalange1551

Solpuga1601

phalangie1608

phalanx1608

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 247 The Phalangium or Phalanx Spyder.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 247 This kind of Phalanx is often found among Spyders-webbes.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. x. 215/1 The Phalangie, or Phalanx-Spider, are of several sort, some great, others lesser, both dangerous, hurtful, and poysonous.

a. Anatomy and Zoology. Originally: †the row of bones in each finger or toe; the entire array of these bones in the hand or foot (obsolete). Later: each of the bones of the fingers or toes, or of the homologous parts of other vertebrates. Also: each of the segments of a finger or toe between two joints (rare).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of hand or foot > [noun] > bones of fingers or toes

internode1657

internodium1664

phalanx1684

phalange1688

ungual phalanx1834

phalangeal1849

1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 227 Phalanx [L. phalanx] is the Order and rank observed in the Finger-Bones.

1694 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck Anat. Human Bodies (new ed.) i. 601 The Phalanx of the Fingers, the Thumb being numbred in, consists of fifteen Bones.

1694 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck Anat. Human Bodies (new ed.) i. 614/1 But in the Hollow of the Hand the Phalanxes of the fingers are fastned to the bones of the Metacarp with a transverse Ligament.

1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 271 Their Articulations with the first Phalanx of the Fingers is by Enarthrosis.

1808 J. Barclay Muscular Motions 375 Certain animals can, without clavicles, lay hold of objects with the digital phalanxes.

1872 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. iv. 152 Each digit consists of three rather elongated bones termed phalanges.

1949 H. Bailey Demonstr. Physical Signs Clin. Surg. (ed. 11) xvi. 181 (caption) Mallet finger. The terminal phalanx cannot be extended because insertion of the extensor tendon has been torn.

1986 R. Pollack Teach yourself Fortune Telling i. 25 If one set of phalanges, the first, the second, or the third, appears noticeably longer than the average in all the fingers, this suggests that the person has developed that area more fully than the others.

2003 Oxoniensia 67 253 Two fragments of horse bone were recovered, including a radius and a phalanx.

b. Anatomy. Any of the flattened phalangiform plates forming the reticular membrane of the organ of Corti, between which protrude the sensory hairs.

ΚΠ

1876 H. Power tr. W. Waldeyer in Stricker's Man. Human & Compar. Histol. III. iv. 164 This plexiform lamella is composed of a number of annular and finger-biscuit, or digital-phalangeal-like frames,..the ‘phalanges’ of Deiters.

1882 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 9) II. 464 The net-like membrane which overlies the outer hair-cell region of the organ of Corti is comprised of at least two rows of elongated fiddle-shaped structures termed ‘phalanges’.

1962 Gray's Anat. (ed. 33) 1312 It [sc. the reticular lamina]..is formed by several rows of minute fiddle-shaped cuticular structures, called phalanges.

1993 Anat. Rec. 237 422/2 The rosette complex..occupied much of the upper quarter of the cell body and often the base of the phalanx.

c. Entomology. Any of the segments of the tarsus of an insect. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. 1323/2 Phalanx.., (2) Entom. A joint of the tarsus.

1906 J. B. Smith Explan. Terms Entomol. 100 Phalanx, a joint or joints of the tarsus.

5. Botany. A bundle of stamens united by their filaments.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > stamen or pistil > stamen(s)

thrum1578

chive1664

stamen1668

attire1672

semet1672

capillament1726

filament1756

phalanx1771

androphore1821

staminodium1821

andrœcium1839

staminode1857

phalange1872

1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 519 The stamina..divided into five distinct phalanges, or bundles.

1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. 417/1 Isadelphous,..when the number of stamens in two phalanges is equal.

1931 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 18 123 The filaments are united into two series of phalanges, an outer and an inner.

1989 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 76 1353 (caption) Later stage of development with clear antipetalous stamen phalanges.

6. Taxonomy. A taxonomic group (of indeterminate rank, usually between genus and class or order). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > [noun] > group higher than genus or of no fixed grade

phalanx1774

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 313 We should find it difficult..to place many that lie at the out-skirts of this phalanx.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvi. 215 These are of another phalanx, having five petals to the corol.

1888 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 15 58 In this Phalanx the first tribe is the Papilionides.

1943 Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 36 607 A separate phalanx, Enicocephaliformes (Reuter, 1910) does not seem warranted.

Derivatives

ˈphalanxed adj. drawn up or ranged in or like a phalanx.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > gathered in a group > like spec.

legioned1653

squadroned1667

phalanxed1758

squadded1896

1758 J. Macpherson Highlander ii. 22 He..rush'd upon the phalanx'd Dane; The bending ranks beneath his sword complain.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxx. 48 Though now one phalanx'd host should meet the foe.

1904 A. Austin in Standard 13 Oct. 2/5 A pall of smoke penetrated only by phalanxed chimneys.

2000 J. Griffiths Grip on Thin Air 56 Acanthus leaves Flourishing on the capitals of phalanxed Corinthian columns.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	phalanx
释义	phalanxn. Brit. /ˈfalaŋks/, U.S. /ˈfeɪˌlæŋks/ Inflections: Plural phalanges Brit. /fəˈlan(d)ʒiːz/, U.S. /fəˈlændʒiz/, /feɪˈlændʒiz/, (chiefly in senses 1 and 2) phalanxes. Forms: 1500s– phalanx, 1600s falanx. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin phalang-, phalanx. Etymology: < classical Latin phalang-, phalanx body of heavy-armed infantry drawn up in close order, in post-classical Latin also body of people in general (4th cent.), row of bones in each finger (1679 or earlier) < ancient Greek ϕαλαγγ- , ϕάλαγξ body of heavy-armed infantry drawn up in close order, round piece of wood, trunk, log, bone of the finger or toe, kind of venomous spider < the same Indo-European base as balk n.¹ Compare Middle French, French phalange body of heavy-armed infantry drawn up in close order (1213 in Old French as phalenge ; 17th cent. in extended use of any body of troops or of people banded together), bone of the finger or toe (1603), phalanstery community (1808), Catalan falange (15th cent. as falanja ), Spanish falange (1442 as falanja ), Italian falange (a1292 as falangia ). In sense 4b after German Phalanx (O. Deiters 1860, in Zeitschr. f. wissenschaftliche Zool. 10 8). Compare earlier phalange n.¹ With sense 3 compare earlier phalange n.², phalangium n.In some instances, it is not possible to determine whether phalanges shows the plural of phalanx n. or of phalange n.¹ 1. Originally: (Ancient Greek History) a line or array of battle; spec. a body of heavy-armed infantry drawn up in close order, with shields touching and long spears overlapping. Now also more widely: any compact body of troops, police, etc.The Macedonian army was especially famous for the effectiveness of its phalanxes. See Macedonian phalanx n. at Macedonian n.¹ and adj.¹ Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [noun] > compact formation sheltronc1000 phalangea1460 phalanx1553 stand of pikes1587 1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. iv. f. 59^v [Alexander] deuided hys Phalanx..into two battayles [L. phalangem..in duo cornua extenderat], and empaled the same wyth horsemen. a1625 J. Fletcher Bonduca ii. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Gggg4/2 Youth and fire, like the fair breaking of a glorious day, guilded their Falanx. 1699 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iii. vi. 63 Their [sc. the Macedonians] Phalanx is describ'd by Polybius to be a square Battail of Pike-men, consisting of sixteen in Flank, and five-hundred in Front. 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xv. 744 The Grecian Phalanx moveless as a Tow'r, On all sides batter'd, yet resists his Pow'r. 1766 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) I. i. 26 The strength of the phalanx was unable to contend with the activity of the legion. 1814 Columbian Centinel (Boston) 15 June 2/3 On Monday the Charlestown Warren Phalanx paraded. 1862 T. C. Grattan Beaten Paths I. 185 Noble veterans.., the remnant of those phalanxes which maintained the pride and power of England in so many a hard-fought field. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 717/2 Their [sc. the Murabtis] main force was infantry,..formed into a phalanx and supported by camelmen. 1977 Western Morning News 30 Aug. 1/3 I had to run bent double past a police phalanx protected by their riot shields. 2003 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 16 Dec. 1 After eight months of frustrating searches..a phalanx of heavily armed U.S. troops made their historic discovery. 2. a. A number or set of persons, etc., banded together for a common purpose, esp. in support of or in opposition to some cause; a united front; (also) the union so formed. in phalanx: unitedly, in combination. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > [noun] > a community > other types of community churchOE phalanx1602 republic1610 phalanstery1839 faith community1896 technocracy1925 plural community1939 Dogpatch1946 discourse community1972 society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > a factionary or partisan > body of sect1450 phalanx1602 camp1885 society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [adverb] > with unity of action or purpose togetherc1330 togethersa1387 in phalanx1817 solidarily1870 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 239 To encounter this Hispanised Camelion Parsons, with all his Africanian phalanges and Iesuiticall forces. 1772 Polit. Reg. 11 168 The ministerial phalanx, it seems, is to be irreparably weakened by your loss. 1810 T. Jefferson Let. 12 Aug. in Writings (1984) 1228 And should difficulties occur which they cannot avert, if we follow them in phalanx, we shall surmount them without danger. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India III. vi. i. 32 On this occasion, the crown lawyers opposed in phalanx. 1881 A. Trollope Dr. Wortle's School I. ix. 165 He knew that the Bishop and the Bishop's phalanx would be against him. 1903 J. Morley Life Gladstone I. iv. ii. 471 A new minister, who..did not shrink from sconcing the powerful landed phalanx like other people. 1992 W. Greider Who will tell People III. xv. 342 Barrie made a nifty end run around the phalanx of corporate lobbyists who were on the other side of the tax-leasing issue. b. A compact body of people, animals, or (occasionally) things, esp. one ordered or arranged in a regular pattern. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > cluster > compact body of people or animals sop?a1400 plump?a1425 globe1610 phalanx1654 noyau1965 1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. vii. 237 The hand..grasping a Nettle, is injured by that phalanx of villous stings, wherewith Nature hath guarded the leaves thereof. 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man iii. 108 Who forms the Phalanx [of migrating storks], and who points the Way? 1785 W. Cowper Needless Alarm 48 The sheep..All huddling into phalanx, stood and gaz'd. 1837 W. H. Ainsworth Crichton I. 237 A dense phalanx of cavaliers and dames of every age and rank. 1891 ‘L. Falconer’ Mademoiselle Ixe 25 Sheltered from the north by high red walls and a phalanx of elms. 1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. ii. 46 Now, far down the shadowy line of University Place a white-clad phalanx broke the gloom. 1994 Denver Post 16 Jan. t1/1 ‘Welcome aboard,’ chimed a phalanx of stewards in crisp nautical whites. †c. A Fourierist community living in a phalanstery. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > [noun] > non-Marxist or Leninist communism > involving socialistic communities > community of community1813 communism1840 phalanx1840 Concordium1841 phalanstère1842 phalanstery1850 commune1875 1840 A. Brisbane Social Destiny of Man xiii. 195 The Phalanx is the universal employer. 1842 R. W. Emerson in Dial July Now fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these phalanxes. 1845 Xenia (Ohio) Torch-light 31 July 2/4 Numerous ‘Phalanxes’ have been established throughout the country, but in no instance that has fallen under our eye has one of them stood the test of experience. †3. More fully phalanx spider. A venomous spider; = phalangium n. 1. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > unspecified type > venomous phalangium1542 phalange1551 Solpuga1601 phalangie1608 phalanx1608 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 247 The Phalangium or Phalanx Spyder. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 247 This kind of Phalanx is often found among Spyders-webbes. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. x. 215/1 The Phalangie, or Phalanx-Spider, are of several sort, some great, others lesser, both dangerous, hurtful, and poysonous. 4. a. Anatomy and Zoology. Originally: †the row of bones in each finger or toe; the entire array of these bones in the hand or foot (obsolete). Later: each of the bones of the fingers or toes, or of the homologous parts of other vertebrates. Also: each of the segments of a finger or toe between two joints (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of hand or foot > [noun] > bones of fingers or toes internode1657 internodium1664 phalanx1684 phalange1688 ungual phalanx1834 phalangeal1849 1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 227 Phalanx [L. phalanx] is the Order and rank observed in the Finger-Bones. 1694 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck Anat. Human Bodies (new ed.) i. 601 The Phalanx of the Fingers, the Thumb being numbred in, consists of fifteen Bones. 1694 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck Anat. Human Bodies (new ed.) i. 614/1 But in the Hollow of the Hand the Phalanxes of the fingers are fastned to the bones of the Metacarp with a transverse Ligament. 1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 271 Their Articulations with the first Phalanx of the Fingers is by Enarthrosis. 1808 J. Barclay Muscular Motions 375 Certain animals can, without clavicles, lay hold of objects with the digital phalanxes. 1872 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. iv. 152 Each digit consists of three rather elongated bones termed phalanges. 1949 H. Bailey Demonstr. Physical Signs Clin. Surg. (ed. 11) xvi. 181 (caption) Mallet finger. The terminal phalanx cannot be extended because insertion of the extensor tendon has been torn. 1986 R. Pollack Teach yourself Fortune Telling i. 25 If one set of phalanges, the first, the second, or the third, appears noticeably longer than the average in all the fingers, this suggests that the person has developed that area more fully than the others. 2003 Oxoniensia 67 253 Two fragments of horse bone were recovered, including a radius and a phalanx. b. Anatomy. Any of the flattened phalangiform plates forming the reticular membrane of the organ of Corti, between which protrude the sensory hairs. ΚΠ 1876 H. Power tr. W. Waldeyer in Stricker's Man. Human & Compar. Histol. III. iv. 164 This plexiform lamella is composed of a number of annular and finger-biscuit, or digital-phalangeal-like frames,..the ‘phalanges’ of Deiters. 1882 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 9) II. 464 The net-like membrane which overlies the outer hair-cell region of the organ of Corti is comprised of at least two rows of elongated fiddle-shaped structures termed ‘phalanges’. 1962 Gray's Anat. (ed. 33) 1312 It [sc. the reticular lamina]..is formed by several rows of minute fiddle-shaped cuticular structures, called phalanges. 1993 Anat. Rec. 237 422/2 The rosette complex..occupied much of the upper quarter of the cell body and often the base of the phalanx. c. Entomology. Any of the segments of the tarsus of an insect. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. 1323/2 Phalanx.., (2) Entom. A joint of the tarsus. 1906 J. B. Smith Explan. Terms Entomol. 100 Phalanx, a joint or joints of the tarsus. 5. Botany. A bundle of stamens united by their filaments. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > stamen or pistil > stamen(s) thrum1578 chive1664 stamen1668 attire1672 semet1672 capillament1726 filament1756 phalanx1771 androphore1821 staminodium1821 andrœcium1839 staminode1857 phalange1872 1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 519 The stamina..divided into five distinct phalanges, or bundles. 1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. 417/1 Isadelphous,..when the number of stamens in two phalanges is equal. 1931 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 18 123 The filaments are united into two series of phalanges, an outer and an inner. 1989 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 76 1353 (caption) Later stage of development with clear antipetalous stamen phalanges. 6. Taxonomy. A taxonomic group (of indeterminate rank, usually between genus and class or order). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > [noun] > group higher than genus or of no fixed grade phalanx1774 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 313 We should find it difficult..to place many that lie at the out-skirts of this phalanx. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvi. 215 These are of another phalanx, having five petals to the corol. 1888 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 15 58 In this Phalanx the first tribe is the Papilionides. 1943 Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 36 607 A separate phalanx, Enicocephaliformes (Reuter, 1910) does not seem warranted. Derivatives ˈphalanxed adj. drawn up or ranged in or like a phalanx. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > gathered in a group > like spec. legioned1653 squadroned1667 phalanxed1758 squadded1896 1758 J. Macpherson Highlander ii. 22 He..rush'd upon the phalanx'd Dane; The bending ranks beneath his sword complain. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lxxx. 48 Though now one phalanx'd host should meet the foe. 1904 A. Austin in Standard 13 Oct. 2/5 A pall of smoke penetrated only by phalanxed chimneys. 2000 J. Griffiths Grip on Thin Air 56 Acanthus leaves Flourishing on the capitals of phalanxed Corinthian columns. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1553
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