tarsal bone

1. 1.

   any bone of the tarsus

   Synonymstarsal

   Broaderbone

   Part oftarsus

Questions about tarsal bone

What does tarsal bone mean?

tarsal bone means "any bone of the tarsus".

What is another word for tarsal bone?

Close synonyms include tarsal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tarsal bone a common word?

tarsal bone 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.