Usually means: Ankle region in birds, mammals.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word tarsus:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. tarsus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Tarsus, tarsus: Merriam-Webster
  3. Tarsus, tarsus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Tarsus, tarsus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tarsus: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tarsus: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tarsus, tarsus: Wordnik
  8. Tarsus, Tarsus, Tarsus, Tarsus, Tarsus, Tarsus, Tarsus, Tarsus, Tarsus, Tarsus, Tarsus, Tarsus, Tarsus, Tarsus: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Tarsus, tarsus: Wiktionary
  10. tarsus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tarsus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tarsus: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tarsus: Dictionary.com
  14. tarsus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Tarsus (Bithynia), Tarsus (arthropod), Tarsus (city), Tarsus (crater), Tarsus (eyelids), Tarsus (skeleton), Tarsus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tarsus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tarsus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tarsus: Rhymezone
  19. Tarsus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tarsus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tarsus: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tarsus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Tarsus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tarsus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. tarsus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Tarsus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Tarsus: Anatomy of the Human Body
  6. Tarsus: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  7. Tarsus (eyelids), Tarsus (skeleton), tarsus: Medical dictionary
  8. Tarsus: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  2. TARSUS: Acronym Finder

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tarsus: Easton Bible
  2. Tarsus: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Tarsus: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Bird On! (No longer online)
  4. DRAGONFLY TERMS (No longer online)
  5. Tarsus: HYPP Zoology
  6. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tarsus: A Few Falconry Terms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

(Note: See tarsi as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy, zootomy) The part between the main part of the hindlimb and the metatarsus in terrestrial vertebrates.
noun:  (anatomy) A group of small bones in this part of the foot. The seven bones of the human tarsus form the ankle and upper part of the foot.
noun:  (zootomy) The shank or tarsometatarsus of the leg of a bird or reptile.
noun:  (zootomy) The true foot or the fifth joint of the leg of an insect or other arthropod, typically consisting of several small segments and ending in a claw.
noun:  (anatomy) A plate of dense connective tissue found in each eyelid, attached to either the superior tarsal muscle (in the upper eyelid) or inferior tarsal muscle (lower eyelid), which aid with sympathetic control.
noun:  A city in Mersin province in southeastern Turkey, an important center of Cilicia since antiquity.

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