talus
noun
the uppermost bone of the proximal row of bones of the tarsus; anklebone.
taluses
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pluralof talus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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As recently as 10,000 years ago, bowl-like cirques in the park's mountains were sculpted by glaciers, which left in their wake gray carpets of rock known as taluses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just above, and farther to the left, is a peculiar temple, resting upon sloping taluses of the red strata beneath, its cap formed of alone, narrow ridge of cross-bedded sandstone.
From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by George Wharton James
Those vast sloping taluses are as clean as a meadow; rarely at the foot of the huge vertical walls do you see a fragment of fallen rock.
From Time and Change by John Burroughs
A few headlands, flat-topped and soil-covered, support clumps of cedar and pine; and up-curving tangles of chinquapin and live-oak, growing on rough earthquake taluses, girdle their bases.
From The Mountains of California by John Muir
No other tree in the Sierra seems so much at home on earthquake taluses and many of these huge boulder-slopes are almost exclusively occupied by it.
From The Yosemite by John Muir
