Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of araehnidans, formerly of great extent, now restricted and made typical of the modern family Phalangiidæ.
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- noun type genus of the family Phalangiidae
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Examples
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The brood of a single phalangium is sometimes three hundred in number.
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The smooth spider is much less prolific than the phalangium or hairy spider.
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They all copulate in the manner above described, the fly, the cantharis, the sphondyle, (the phalangium spider) any others of the kind that copulate at all.
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These phalangia, when they grow to full size, very often envelop the mother phalangium and eject and kill her; and not seldom they kill the father-phalangium as well, if they catch him: for, by the way, he has the habit of co-operating with the mother in the hatching.
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83: "In Creta Insula non vulpes ursive, atque omnino millum maleficum animal præter phalangium."
Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch
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-- No. 1 indicating the first digit or great toe.) ab, abductors; ad adductor; fb, flexor brevis; fp, flexores profundi; fph, flexores phalangium: op, opponens muscles; tm, transverse muscles.
The Common Frog 1874
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