Definitions for talus

talus ta·lus

Spelling: [tey-luh s]
IPA: /ˈteɪ ləs/

Talus is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in talus (alstu).

Definitions for talus

noun

  1. the uppermost bone of the proximal row of bones of the tarsus; anklebone.
  2. a slope.
  3. Geology. a sloping mass of rocky fragments at the base of a cliff.
  4. Fortification. the slope of the face of a work.

Origin of talus

First recorded in 1685-95, talus is from the Latin word tālus ankle, anklebone, die. See tassel

Examples for talus

Here also it grows among the talus at the foot of limestone cliffs.

Then talus said, ‘Who are you, strange maiden, and where is this ichor of youth?’

Other burials were in the open or in the talus slopes below the caves.

The snow is in this case but a substitute for a normal mass of talus.

At the foot of the talus he stopped to listen, wondering how close behind him the water might be.

Might they not belong merely to the talus of this bank of boulder-clay?

And talus tried to leap up, crying, ‘You have betrayed me, false witch-maiden!’

talus, the nephew of Ddalus by his sister, is said in the viij.

But most men thought it must be talus, the great giant who guarded Crete.

Valley of the Rhone, with the waterfall of Sallenches, showing a talus of debris 261 27.

Word Value for talus
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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