Definitions
a scar where the umbilical cord was attached
Word origin
From Middle English navel, navele, from Old English nafola, from Proto-West Germanic *nabulō, from Proto-Germanic *nabalô (“navel”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nóbʰōl (“navel”), diminutive of *h₃nebʰ- (“hub; navel”).
Used in a sentence
“Within the navel of this hideous wood, Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells, Of Bacchus and Circe born, great Comus”
“Sweeter than the muſk of Tatar, the morning breeze from the navel of every flower raviſhed perfume.”
“We sat alfresco on the edge of a “square,” in reality a pond of cobbly mud with a plinth plonked in its navel […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Belly button”5 letters
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