navel : Idioms & Phrases

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  • a bruise on the top of the chine of the back of a horse, behind the saddle. Johnson.
Webster 1913
  • noun seedless orange enclosing a small secondary fruit at the apex
WordNet
  • noun the center point or middle of something
    navel.
    • the Incas believed that Cuzco was the navel of the universe
WordNet
  • . (Her.) Same as Nombril.
Webster 1913
  • noun literally, the contemplation of one's navel, which is an idiom usually meaning complacent self-absorption
    omphaloskepsis.
WordNet
Na"vel-string` noun
Definitions
  1. The umbilical cord.
Webster 1913