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

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.

Thence it passes to the tarsus, and terminates in different fashion in carnivora and other quadrupeds.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard

Sellanders, sel′an-dėrs, n. an eruption in the tarsus of the horse.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

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