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tarsused

tarsused adjective: having a specified type of tarsus.

Adjective

tarsused (not comparable)

  1. (in-compounds, rare) Having a specified type of tarsus.
    • 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...1988 June, P. A. Buckley, “The World’s first known juvenile Cox’s Sandpiper”, in British Birds, volume 81, number 6, page 255

Origin of tarsused

From tarsus + -ed.

Questions about tarsused

What does tarsused mean?
Tarsused means having a specified type of tarsus.
What part of speech is tarsused?
Tarsused is an adjective.

Words near tarsused in the dictionary

  1. tarsotomies
  2. tarsotomy
  3. tarsungula
  4. tarsungulum
  5. tarsus
  6. tarsused
  7. tart
  8. tart burner
  9. tart burners
  10. tart card
  11. tart cards

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