omphalos

Noun

Meaning

a scar where the umbilical cord was attached

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

navel belly button umbilicus bellybutton omphalus center centre nave nexus cynosure focus core heart seat axis
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Antonyms

side outside border edge boundary margin
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Hypernyms

point

Examples

you were not supposed to show your navel on television Source: Internet

they argued whether or not Adam had a navel Source: Internet

she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton Source: Internet

Holland (1933) argues that these channels and the hollow nature of the omphalos found by the French would channel the vapors of intoxicant gases. Source: Internet

Inside, they find a secret passageway that leads downstairs to a sacred room, in the middle of which they find a carved omphalos that replicates the one at Delphi. Source: Internet

Borges had earlier written a short essay, "The Creation and P. H. Gosse" citation that explored the rejection of Gosse's Omphalos. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

omphalopsychite omphalopter omphaloptic Omphalos hypothesis omphaloscepsis omphalosceptic