tarsus
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Some are sturdy leather brogues with heels extending beyond the back of the shoe; others have tongues that take their licks at the ankles, leaving even the slimmest tarsus looking like a giant redwood.
From Time Magazine Archive
It arises from the fibula and tibia, and is thence directed towards the tarsus.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer
Hind toe articulated on the inner surface of the tarsus, united to other toes by a web.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
Bill long, compressed, slightly curved, slender, with cutting edges, broad at the base; upper mandible keeled, the tip not hooked; tarsus very short; wings long, pointed, second primary the longest; centre tail feathers elongated.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
Sustentac′ular, supporting, pertaining to a Sustentac′ulum, a support or sustaining tissue, esp. an inferior spine of the tarsus in spiders of the genus Epeira.—v.t.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
This force relies on the parasite’s highly adapted feet, called tarsi, which are equipped with toothed claws.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 31, 2022
The dorsum is uniformly grayish green with the only dorsal marks being on the tarsi; canthal and post-tympanic dark marks absent.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
Many specimens have chiggers on the digits and tarsi.
From A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Syrrhophus Cope by John D. Lynch
Bill flattened and obtuse; no hind toe; tarsi unarmed; wings very short; rectrices sixteen to twenty.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
The limbs are remarkably stout, and the robust tarsi are of a yellow colour.
