tarsused

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adjective

Having a specified type of tarsus.

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Meanings

adjectivetarsused (not comparable)
  1. in compoundsnot comparablerareHaving a specified type of tarsus.
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    A few additional features of this and one of the Australian Cox’s (black-and-white photographs in Cox 1987) deserve mention, even if only tentatively at this stage: (1) Cox’s tarsus is absolutely longer than that of Pectoral, and in photographs the knee is very close to the belly feathering, accentuating the long-tarsused look; […]

    1988 June, P. A. Buckley, “The World’s first known juvenile Cox’s Sandpiper”, in British Birds, volume 81, number 6, page 255

Origin

From tarsus + -ed.

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APA

tarsused. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tarsused

MLA

“tarsused.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tarsused. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tarsused,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tarsused.

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