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noun
The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of placental mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
The central part or point of anything; the middle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A navel orange.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
An eye on the underside of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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verb
To be in the middle of a landscape.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: literary, poetic
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noun
a scar where the umbilical cord was attached
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: umbilicus, bellybutton, belly button, omphalos, omphalus
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Broader terms: point
noun
the center point or middle of something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: navel point
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: center, centre, midpoint
History
From Middle English navel, navele, from Old English nafola, from Proto-West Germanic *nabulō, from Proto-Germanic *nabalô (“navel”), from Proto-Indo-European *h3nóbhōl (“navel”), diminutive of *h3nebh- (“hub; navel”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian nâle (“navel”), Dutch navel (“navel”), German Nabel (“navel”), Vilamovian nowuł (“navel”), Yiddish נאָפּל (nopl, “navel”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk navle (“navel”), Icelandic nafli (“navel”), Swedish navel (“navel”); also Irish imleacán (“navel”), Scottish Gaelic ilmeag, imleag (“navel; nave”), Kashmiri ناب (nāb, “navel”), Latin umbilīcus (“navel”), Greek αφαλός (afalós), ομφαλός (omfalós, “navel”), Old Prussian nabis (“navel”), Armenian անիվ (aniv, “wheel”), Central Kurdish ناوک (nawik, “navel”), Persian ناف (nâf, “navel”), Sanskrit नाभि (nābhi, “navel; centre”), Doublet of omphalos. More at nave.
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