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Navel
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- 1 The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of placental mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth.
- 2 a scar where the umbilical cord was attached wordnet
- 3 The central part or point of anything; the middle.
"Within the navel of this hideous wood, Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells, Of Bacchus and Circe born, great Comus"
- 4 the center point or middle of something wordnet
- 5 A navel orange.
"This contributed to a rapid rise in planted acreage in northern California, especially in navels, which are more suited to growing conditions there."
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- 6 An eye on the underside of a carronade for securing it to a carriage. historical
- 1 To be in the middle of a landscape. literary, poetic
"Lo, Nemi! navelled in the woody hills / So far, that the uprooting wind which tears / The oak from his foundation, and which spills / The ocean o’er its boundary, and bears / Its foam against the skies, reluctant spares / The oval mirror of thy glassy lake; […]"
Etymology
From Middle English navel, navele, from Old English nafola, from Proto-West Germanic *nabulō, from Proto-Germanic *nabalô (compare West Frisian nâle, Dutch navel, German Nabel), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nóbʰōl (compare Old Irish imbliu, Latin umbilīcus, Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós), Persian ناف (nâf), Kurdish navik, Sanskrit नाभि (nābhi)), diminutive of *h₃nebʰ-. Doublet of omphalos. More at nave.
From Middle English navel, navele, from Old English nafola, from Proto-West Germanic *nabulō, from Proto-Germanic *nabalô (compare West Frisian nâle, Dutch navel, German Nabel), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nóbʰōl (compare Old Irish imbliu, Latin umbilīcus, Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós), Persian ناف (nâf), Kurdish navik, Sanskrit नाभि (nābhi)), diminutive of *h₃nebʰ-. Doublet of omphalos. More at nave.
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