phalanx > define

noun

• Any of the bones of the fingers or toes.
• Any closely ranked crowd of people.
• A body of troops in close array. .

• (n.) A Fourierite community; a phalanstery.
• (n.) One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the metacarpus or metatarsus; an internode.
• (n.) A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men.
• (n.) A group or bundle of stamens, as in polyadelphous flowers.
• (n.) Any body of troops or men formed in close array or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of a union.