umbilicus
Meaning of umbilicus
noun
- Navel
- Hilum
- A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
- Either of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather.
- A tube connecting an astronaut or spacecraft to the mothership, through which supplies and samples can be transferred.
- One of the foci of an ellipse or other curve.
- 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.
- An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.
Information about umbilicus
- It is a name.
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Hyphenation of umbilicus
um-bili-cus
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- umbilicus is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
umbilicus synonyms
Meaning navel:
navel, bellybutton, omphalos, omphalus
Translation of umbilicus
Words that rhyme with umbilicus
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