"Umbilicus" is a word in ENGLISH
Either one of the two apertures in the calamus of a
feather.
An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each
end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.
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.
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.
The hilum.
One of foci of an ellipse, or other curve.
A depression or opening in the center of the base of
many spiral shells.
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A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
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