phalanx vs bone

phalanx and bone both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
phalanx	Yes	No	No	No
bone	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

As nouns, bone is a hypernym of phalanx; that is, bone is a word with a broader meaning than phalanx:

Other hypernyms of phalanx include os.

phalanx (noun)	bone (noun)
any of the bones of the fingers or toes	a shade of white the color of bleached bones
a body of troops in close array	rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
any closely ranked crowd of people	the porous calcified substance from which bones are made

phalanx (adjective)	bone (adjective)
	consisting of or made up of bone

phalanx (verb)	bone (verb)
	remove the bones from
	study intensively, as before an exam