metatarsus

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun the skeleton of the human foot between the toes and the tarsus; the corresponding part of the foot in birds or of the hind foot in quadrupeds

From New Latin metatarsus.

Thus romance, beginning at the metatarsus, slowly but surely ascends to the diastolic region! — The Prairie Mother, Arthur Stringer
Dr. Jervis’s measurements of the footprints give us ten inches and three-quarters as the extreme length and four inches and five-eighths as the extreme width at the heads of the metatarsus. — The blue scarab, R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

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