Dictionary Entry
umbilicus
umbilicus is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The depression, or mark, in the median line of the abdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated from the fetus; the navel. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 21 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The depression, or mark, in the median line of the abdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated from the fetus; the navel.
- 2noun
An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.
- 3noun
The hilum.
- 4noun
A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
- 5noun
Either one of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather.
- 6noun
One of foci of an ellipse, or other curve.
- 7noun
A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other. A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus. Called also umbilic.
- 8noun
a scar where the umbilical cord was attached
"you were not supposed to show your navel on television"
"they argued whether or not Adam had a navel"
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