omphalos

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omphalos - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Omphalos \Om"pha*los\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Anat.)
     The navel.
     [1913 Webster]

omphalos - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  omphalos
      n 1: 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"; "she had a tattoo just
           above her bellybutton" [syn: navel, umbilicus,
           bellybutton, belly button, omphalos, omphalus]