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 shorter than the head, stout, straight, compressed; upper mandible expanding at the base and forming a disc on the forehead; toes entirely divided, bordered by a narrow entire membrane, middle toe longer than tarsus.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
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
The bones of the tarsus are not seven in all animals; they are fewer in ruminants and solipeds.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer
Bill with an elevated tubercle at the base, depressed in the middle; nostrils large, pervious; lower portion of tarsus in front with a row of transverse scutellæ.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
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 scutellum and the five-jointed tarsi at once remove it from Mallophaga, and it is a wonder that Le Conte and Horn have not more fully insisted on this fact.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
The tarsi are five-jointed, the front and middle pair with a row of claviform membraneous appendages each side, which Le Conte found only in the male.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. 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 Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth) Eaton
Resembling No. 715, but darker and browner, with chest, etc., more distinctly speckled; wings and tail shorter; bill and tarsi longer; W. 2.6; T. 2.2.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Frank M. Chapman
