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gent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (A. Galanga and A. officinarum) and of the Kæmpferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family.

om the volatile oil of the flowers of Canada odorata, an East Indian tree. [Also written ylang-ylang.]

A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.

Between phalanges; as, interphalangeal articulations.

A mixture; a medley.

See Auld lang syne.

Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.

Of or pertaining to the phalanges. See Phalanx, 2.

Any marsupial belonging to Phalangista, Cuscus, Petaurus, and other genera of the family Phalangistidæ. They are arboreal, and the species of Petaurus are furnished with lateral parachutes. See Flying phalanger, under Flying.

, pl. of Phalanx.

Phalangeal.

One of the Phalangoidea.

Of or pertaining to Phalangoidea.

Any arboreal marsupial of the genus Phalangista. The vulpine phalangist (P. vulpina) is the largest species, the full grown male being about two and a half feet long. It has a large bushy tail.

Same as Phalangist.

A soldier belonging to a phalanx. [Obs.]

A division of Arachnoidea, including the daddy longlegs or harvestman (Phalangium) and many similar kinds. They have long, slender, many-jointed legs; usually a rounded, segmented abdomen; and chelate jaws. They breathe by tracheæ. Called also Phalangides, Phalangidea, Phalangiida, and Opilionea.

The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound. [R.]

Beating; dashing, as a wave. [R.] "The plangent wave." H. Taylor.

The first and undivided part of the aortic trunk in the amphibian heart. -- Py*lan"gi*al, a.