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talus

UK/ˈteɪləs/US/ˈteɪləs/
nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,291 of 15,258leans written

Talus is the heap of rock debris at the foot of a slope. A talus slope, cross the talus, talus cone.

It is the same thing as scree, with talus the more technical and American term. It also names the ankle bone, which is a separate word entirely and comes from the Latin for a heel.

Jerzy Strzelecki · CC BY-SA 3.0

Definitions of talus

  1. 1nountalusThe heap of rock debris at the foot of a slope.C2

    “We scrambled up the loose talus at the foot of the cliff.”

talus is a debris.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    tālus

  2. English, today

    talus

Borrowed from Latin tālus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Rocks & Minerals

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talus in the wild

  • The main bones of the ankle region are the talus (in the foot), the tibia, and fibula (both in the leg).

    Ankle

  • The articulation between the tibia and the talus bears more weight than that between the smaller fibula and the talus.

    Ankle

  • Landforms associated with these materials are often called talus deposits.

    Scree

  • The term talus deposit is sometimes used to distinguish the landform from the material of which it is made.

    Scree

  • Rock glaciers are normally found at high latitudes and/or elevations, and may extend outward and downslope from talus cones, glaciers or terminal moraines of glaciers.

    Rock glacier

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the tālus family

talontassel

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