tarsus

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

In other quadrupeds, the articulations which bind together the bones of the tarsus possess a little more freedom of movement.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer

The articulations of the bones of the tarsus, and of these with the metatarsus, do not offer any interest with regard to mobility, this being almost wholly absent at that level.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer

The fleshy body which succeeds is directed towards the tarsus, but before reaching it is replaced by a tendon.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer

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 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

Bill flattened and obtuse; no hind toe; tarsi unarmed; wings very short; rectrices sixteen to twenty.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns

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

Lore with feathers; tarsi short and strong, naked or feathered; wings large, the fourth primary the longest.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns

Bill swollen at tip, convex; the upper mandible covered at the base with a soft membrane in which lie the nostrils, with a valve over them; tarsi covered fore and rear with hexagonal scales.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns