tarsused

English

Etymology

From tarsus +‎ -ed.

Adjective

tarsused (not comparable)

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

     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; […]