What is the meaning of Talus?

The bone of the ankle.

A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.

The slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top.

inessive singular of talu

slope, embankment

thallus

talus

the ankle or anklebone (of animals), talus; knucklebone

an oblong die rounded at its ends and only marked on its other four sides

the heel

Source: wiktionary.org