phalanx

noun

• 1 (plural phalanxes) a body of troops or police officers, standing or moving in close formation:six hundred marchers set off, led by a phalanx of police
• a group of people or things of a similar type forming a compact body:he headed past the phalanx of waiting reporters to the line of limos
• (in ancient Greece) a body of Macedonian infantry with long spears, drawn up in close order with shields overlapping.

• 2 (plural phalanges /fəˈlanjēz, fāˈlanjēz/) Anatomy a bone of the finger or toe.