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 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 Johns, Rev. C. A.
Plumage rosy red; wing-coverts crimson; wing-feathers black; bill pale yellowish red, apical half black; feet dark violet-grey: whole length 39·0 inches, wing 15·0, tarsus 11·0.
From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
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 Cuyer, ?douard
Thence it passes to the tarsus, and terminates in different fashion in carnivora and other quadrupeds.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
