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
No other tree seems so capable of adapting itself to earthquake taluses, and many of these rough boulder-slopes are occupied by it almost exclusively, especially in yosemite gorges moistened by the spray of waterfalls.
From The Mountains of California by John Muir
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
The slopes or taluses represent the softer rock, the vertical walls the harder layers.
From Time and Change by John Burroughs
I was long in doubt on some points concerning the origin of those taluses.
From The Yosemite by John Muir
