metatarsus

1. 1.

   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

   Broaderskeletal structure

   Part ofvertebrate foot

   Partsmetatarsal

Other forms of metatarsus

plural

metatarsi

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about metatarsus

What does metatarsus mean?

metatarsus means "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".

How many syllables are in metatarsus?

metatarsus has 4 syllables: me-ta-tar-sus. The stress falls on "ta".

Is metatarsus a common word?

metatarsus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.