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

It arises from the fibula and tibia, and is thence directed towards the tarsus.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard

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.

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 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