phalange

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The first wing phalange is much longer than the others, which successively and rapidly diminish in length, so that the third is half the length of the first.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

The first phalange is quite different from the others.

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

Fore-feet with five toes; the first much more slender than the others, and with a smaller ungual phalange and nail; the second, though the longest, also slender.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various

Each phalange was designed to be an ideal democracy, electing its officers and governing itself.

From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Orth, Samuel P.