Tarsus is valid Scrabble Word

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6 letters word
6 points in Scrabble
7 points in WWF

Definitions for TARSUS in dictionary:

NOUN:

(Latin) the part of the leg between the knee and the foot
an ancient city in southern Turkey, the capital of Cilicia and the birthplace of St Paul. It is now a market town.
bones of the heel and ankle collectively
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.
A plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals; -- called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate.
The foot of an insect or a crustacean. It usually consists of form two to five joints.
the part of the foot of a vertebrate between the metatarsus and the leg; in human beings the bones of the ankle and heel collectively

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a part of the foot

Words related to TARSUS

Words that contain TARSUS

metatarsus12 tibiotarsus13 metatarsuses14 tarsometatarsus17

How to use TARSUS in a sentence

The first was a monk from Tarsus, whom the Pope dispatched in the year 668 to Britain as Archbishop of Canterbury.
Cleopatra remained at Tarsus for some time, revolving in an incessant round of gayety and pleasure, and living in habits of unrestrained intimacy with Antony.
He broke up his quarters at Tarsus and moved south toward Tyre, which was a great naval port and station in those days.
He protested against our travelling more than six hours a day, and conducted himself so insolently, that we threatened to take him before the Pasha of Tarsus.
From the bridge an ancient road still leads to the old Byzantine gate of Tarsus.
From the top of a mound, whereupon stand the remains of an ancient circular edifice, we obtained a fine view of the city and plain of Tarsus.
We left Tarsus this morning, and are now encamped among the pines of Mount Taurus.
The bazaar, after that of Konia, was the largest we had seen since leaving Tarsus.
Tancred, with his men, had entered Tarsus, the birthplace of St.
He loved Paul of Tarsus, liked St John, hated St James as much as he dared, and regarded with mixed feelings Timothy, Titus, and Philemon.

But the most striking contrast between the two lies in the bones of the leg and of that part of the foot termed the tarsus, which follows upon the leg.
When he was at Tarsus, the lovely queen of Egypt came, resolved to win him over.
Sandan, the mythical founder of Tarsus, was honoured each year at that city by burning a great bonfire, and he was identified with Hercules.
Gifts were sent to Ashur-bani-pal by the kings of Arvad, Tyre, Tarsus, and Tabal.
It could have sprung up from work done by Paul while at Tarsus from the time of his return from Arabia to his going to Antioch with Barnabas.
The minister read the story of the martyr Stephen, and the conversion of Saul of Tarsus, taken from the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth chapters of Acts.
The tarsus is a true hinge joint and because of the great strain which it sustains, is subject to frequent injury.
No event could have been less expected than the conversion of Saul of Tarsus.
His choice fell upon one Theodore, a monk of Tarsus in Cilicia, who was in the orders of the Eastern church.
Her experience is strangely remote from the experience of Saul of Tarsus, or Augustine, or John Bunyan.
At Tarsus, in Cilicia, whither he had gone to prepare for the war against the Parthians, he was visited by Cleopatra.
In May, 1863, native pastors were ordained at Antioch, Bitlis, Adana, and Tarsus.
During the dark, amongst other misfortunes, Damianus, a member of the senate and president of the Blues in Tarsus, was slain by an arrow.
Our old Tarsus and Antioch friend and leader has written a special word about this matter of being chosen for service.
Chief among these figured Athens, Rhodes, Tarsus, Antioch, Alexandria, and Marseilles.
He came from Tarsus in Cilicia, and Cilicia was the native home of many leading Stoics, including its greatest representative in all antiquity.
When the advance had reached Tarsus, there was almost a mutiny among the Greeks, who were suspicious of the intentions of Cyrus.
Saul of Tarsus was a Benjamite of pure Israelite descent, but also a Roman citizen by birth.
Tarsus is situated in the plain of Cilicia, and is now about ten miles from the sea.
Thus Tarsus had the advantages of a maritime town, though far enough from the sea to be safe from pirates.
What distinguished Tarsus was its love of learning, widely diffused in all classes of the population.

Similar words containing TARSU without suffix s

metatarsus12 tibiotarsus13 metatarsuses14 tarsometatarsus17

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