noun
Meaning 1
A navel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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Standard Lemma guide
umbilicus
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noun
Meaning 2
Umbilical cord
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, proscribed, sometimes
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noun
Meaning 3
A hilum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 4
A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
Meaning 5
Either of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
Meaning 6
A tube connecting an astronaut or spacecraft to the mothership, through which supplies and samples can be transferred.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: aerospace, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, space-science
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noun
Meaning 7
One of the foci of an ellipse or other curve.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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noun
Meaning 8
A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
Examples
- A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus.
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noun
Meaning 9
An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Meaning 10
a scar where the umbilical cord was attached
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- you were not supposed to show your navel on television
- they argued whether or not Adam had a navel
- she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: navel, bellybutton, belly button, omphalos, omphalus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: point
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h3nóbhōlder. Latin umbilīcusbor. English umbilicus Borrowed from Latin umbilīcus (“navel”).
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