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
This proceeds towards the tarsus, but previously it passes between the tibia and fibula.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
Bill strong; orbits naked; tarsus naked, male with a knob on the tarsus behind; tail of sixteen feathers, short, bent down.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.
Pal′ma, the palm: the enlarged proximal joint of the fore tarsus of a bee.—adjs.
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.
