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PHALANGE
PHALANX
phalanx
(noun) any of the bones of the fingers or toes
phalanx
(noun) a body of troops in close array
phalanx
(noun) any closely ranked crowd of people
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
phalange (plural phalanges)
(obsolete) A phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.). [15th-17th c.]
(anatomy) A phalanx. [from 17th c.]
(zoology) Any of the joints of an insect's tarsus.
(botany) A bundle of stamens joined by their filaments.
Proper noun
Phalange
A right-wing Lebanese paramilitary movement based somewhat on the Spanish Falange
Synonyms
• Kataeb
Source: Wiktionary
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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