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METATARSUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: metatarsi   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("metatarsus" is a kind of...):

skeletal structure (any structure created by the skeleton of an organism)

Meronyms (parts of "metatarsus"):

metatarsal (any bone of the foot between the ankle and the toes)

Holonyms ("metatarsus" is a part of...):

pedal extremity; vertebrate foot (the extremity of the limb in vertebrates)

Derivation:

metatarsal (of or relating to the metatarsus)

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