Definitions for Tarsus

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Tarsus tar·sus

Spelling: [tahr-suh s]

IPA: /ˈtɑr səs/

Tarsus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in Tarsus (arsstu).

Definitions for Tarsus

noun

1. Anatomy, Zoology. the bones of the proximal segment of the foot; the bones between the tibia and the metatarsus, contributing to the construction of the ankle joint.
2. the small plate of connective tissue along the border of an eyelid.
3. tarsometatarsus.
4. the distal part of the leg of an insect, usually subdivided in the adult into two to five segments.
5. a city in S Turkey, near the Mediterranean, on the Cydnus River: important seaport of ancient Cilicia; birthplace of Saint Paul.

Origin of Tarsus

1670-80; New Latin Greek tarsós flat of the foot

Examples for Tarsus

The tarsus folds back; and the antenn are held as in a vice.

Yet it was not for Cilicia and tarsus that this fire burned.

Claws: the claw or hook-like structures at the end of the foot or tarsus.

Every one looked to that point,I see a man of tarsus; and he says, Make mention of me!

And thus her mind drew on to that supper at tarsus when she drank the pearl.

Was not Saul of tarsus converted from unbelief by a similar fright?

When the storm was over, Pericles ordered the sailors to make for tarsus.

She is not dead at tarsus as she should have been by the savage Dionysia.

Saul of tarsus had been often near it, before he found it for himself.

Go and inquire for one called Saul of tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth.