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
In the dog and the cat, it is inserted into the ligamentous apparatus of the tarsus, or into the base of the second metatarsal.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
Retrotarsal, rē-trō-tar′sal, adj. being behind the tarsus of the eye.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Bill compressed, straight, with cutting edges; upper mandible slightly hooked at the point; sides of the gape bristled; tarsus short; wings long; first primary a little shorter than the second, which is the longest.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.
In other quadrupeds, the articulations which bind together the bones of the tarsus possess a little more freedom of movement.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
This force relies on the parasite’s highly adapted feet, called tarsi, which are equipped with toothed claws.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 31, 2022
Trimera, trim′e-ra, n.pl. a division of beetles with tarsi three-jointed.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
For the purpose of this review there is no special value in a comparison of the tarsi of frogs and salamanders, since the leaping adaptation of the former leaves very little common pattern between them.
From The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)
Tail of fourteen feathers; tarsi armed with blunt spurs in male.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.
The tarsi and feet are like those in the specimen described above, but the posterior surfaces of the thighs are yellowish tan heavily suffused with brown; the venter is cream color.
From A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla by Duellman, William E.
