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Bones of the ankle and foot - sitar
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tarsi
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n. the part of the foot of a vertebrate between the metatarsus and the leg; in human beings the bones of the ankle and heel collectively [also: tarsi (pl)]
Usage examples of tarsi.
You see, sir,--and he went on with elytra and antennae and tarsi and metatarsi and tracheae and stomata and wingmuscles and leg-muscles and ganglions,--all plain enough, I do not doubt, to those accustomed to handling dor-bugs and squash-bugs and such undesirable objects of affection to all but naturalists.
In the Onites apelles the tarsi are so habitually lost, that the insect has been described as not having them.
Duckweed Dugong, affinities of Dung-beetles with deficient tarsi Dyticus Earl, Mr.
Gripping a thread with her front tarsi, or fingers, she turns, one after the other, a number of back somersaults, like those of an acrobat on the trapeze.
She tugs a bit, drags her tarsi till she almost breaks the supporting threads.
That cumbersome black undercarriage and two pairs of elongated, limp tarsi and a pair of flaccid palps should by rights drag them back down to earth and thus evolutionary annihilation.