Phalange

fā-lanj′, n. a phalanx of a digit: any of the joints of an insect's tarsus: a bundle of stamens joined by their filaments: a socialistic community in Fourier's dream of an ideal arrangement of society, consisting of 1800 persons living in a phalanstère —generally in pl. , the usual sing . being Phā′lanx (q.v.).— adjs. Phalan′gal , Phalan′gēal , Phalan′gial , Phalan′gian ; Phalan′giform ; Phalanstē′rian .— ns. Phalanstē′rianism , Phalan′sterism ; Phal′anstery , the dwelling of the phalange in the ideal social system of Fourier (1772-1837), a vast structure in the midst of a square league of cultivated land.