navel
Other forms: navels
If you look down at your stomach, you can see your navel. It’s that weird-looking round depression in the middle of your belly, unless you have an "outie," in which case it pokes out instead of in.
Your navel is actually a large scar that was caused by the removal of the umbilical cord when you were born, also known as your belly button. The word can also be used figuratively for a center point, like how the navel is in the center of your stomach. You might call New York City the navel of the arts scene in the United States. Careful: navels have nothing to do with the Navy, that would be naval.
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a scar where the umbilical cord was attached“you were not supposed to show your navel on television”“they argued whether or not Adam had a navel”synonyms: belly button, bellybutton, omphalos, omphalus, umbilicustype of:pointthe precise location of something; a spatially limited location
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the center point or middle of something“the Incas believed that Cuzco was the navel of the universe”synonyms: navel point
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