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.
For this use of ex cf. ex sententia, ex voluntate. phalange = phalanx.
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund
The second phalange is concave at the upper articular end and convex in the longer direction at the lower end.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.
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
The first digit would then only carry one phalange, and would not terminate in a claw, but lie in the line of the tendon which supports the anterior wing membrane of a bird.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
