Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The metatarsus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) Metatarsus.
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- noun anatomy The
metatarsus .
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The fact is -- gulls, when standing, tuck the tibia quite close to the abdomen, apparently under the wing, and reveal only a very little portion of the tibio-tarsal joint, keeping the metatarse perfectly straight, or, as someone wrote to me once, "like two arrows or sticks."
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