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Umbilicus

noun
(pl. umbilici, umbilicuses)
1.
A scar where the umbilical cord was attached.  Synonyms: belly button, bellybutton, navel, omphalos, omphalus.  "They argued whether or not Adam had a navel" , "She had a tattoo just above her bellybutton"



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... californica, Saponaria ocymoides, Saxifraga mutata, S. Wallacei, Sedum Sieboldi, S. spectabile, Sempervivum Laggeri, Senecio pulcher, Spiraea palmata, S. ulmaria variegata, S. venusta, Statice latifolia, S. profusa, Stenactis speciosus, Tropaeolum tuberosum, Umbilicus ...
— Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers - Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, - Rockeries, and Shrubberies. • John Wood

... The umbilicus of newly-born children is inevitably tied by a doctor and not by a member of the family, as with some nations. Circumcision is practised on male children when at the age of forty days. It is merely performed as a sanitary precaution, and is ...
— Across Coveted Lands - or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland • Arnold Henry Savage Landor



Words linked to "Umbilicus" :   point, vesicula umbilicus, abdomen, stomach, belly, venter, umbilical



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