Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology, the upper surface of the tarsus; the instep of the foot.
- noun In ornithology, the front of the tarso-metatarsus, this segment of the limb being called
tarsus in ordinary descriptive ornithology.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The instep or front of the tarsus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology The
instep or front of thetarsus .
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek topmost + tarsus.
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