noun the foot of an insect or a crustacean. it usually consists of form two to five joints.
2. tarsus ·noun the ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven short bones.
3. tarsus ·noun a plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals;
called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate.