umbilic

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Adjective

umbilic (comparative more umbilic, superlative most umbilic)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or having a navel or umbilicus

Noun

umbilic (plural umbilics)

  1. The navel; the center.
    • 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great:
      In the umbilic of this Court is a square Tank.
  2. (geometry) An umbilicus.

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