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phalangites

phalangites is the plural of phalangite.

Meaning of phalangite

Noun

phalangite (plural phalangites)

  1. (historical) A soldier belonging to a phalanx.
  2. (historical) Specifically, a pikeman fighting in a Macedonian phalanx, armed with a two-handed pike and using a smaller shield than the hoplite's aspis.

Questions about phalangites

What is phalangites the plural of?
Phalangites is the plural of phalangite.

Words near phalangites in the dictionary

  1. phalangioids
  2. phalangiotarbid
  3. phalangist
  4. phalangists
  5. phalangite
  6. phalangites
  7. phalangitic
  8. phalangitis
  9. phalangodid
  10. phalangodids
  11. phalangopsid

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