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
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
Two central tail-feathers tapering from the base, pointed, and projecting six inches; tarsus less than two inches.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.
Tarsometatar′sal, pertaining to the tarsus and the metatarsus.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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 Johns, Rev. C. A.
