phalange

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The first phalange is quite different from the others.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

Each phalange was designed to be an ideal democracy, electing its officers and governing itself.

From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Orth, Samuel P.

For this use of ex cf. ex sententia, ex voluntate. phalange = phalanx.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund

The family may be divided into two subfamilies, of which the Emballonurinae is characterized by the incomplete premaxillae, the presence of only one phalange in the index finger, and the short tail.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various

Every claw and phalange has left its mark in the stone; while the trifid termination of the tarso-metatarsal bone leaves three marks more,—fifteen in all,—the true ornithic number.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh