Word Meanings - OMPHALOS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The navel.

Related words: (words related to OMPHALOS)

• NAVEL-STRING
  The umbilical cord.
• NAVEL
  A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus. See Umbilicus.belly button in humans 2. The central part or point of anything; the middle. Within the navel of this hideous wood, Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells. Milton.
• NAVEL ORANGE
  A type of orange in which the fruit incloses a small secondary fruit, the rind showing on the exterior a navel-like pit or depression at the apex. There are several varieties; they are usually seedless, or nearly so, and are much grown
• NAVELWORT
  A European perennial succulent herb , having round, peltate leaves with a central depression; -- also called pennywort, and kidneywort.