Definitions for taluses

taluses ta·lus

Spelling: [tey-luh s]
IPA: /ˈteɪ ləs/

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

You can make 205 anagrams from letters in taluses (aelsstu).

Definitions for taluses

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 taluses

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

Examples for taluses

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for taluses
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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