omphalic

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English

Adjective

omphalic

  1. Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
    • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 400:
      That omphalic cord will pull like rubber over eight thousand miles. I can never be the same again.