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BELLYBUTTON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bellybutton mean?
• BELLYBUTTON (noun)
The noun BELLYBUTTON has 1 sense:
1. a scar where the umbilical cord was attached
Familiarity information: BELLYBUTTON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A scar where the umbilical cord was attached
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
belly button; bellybutton; navel; omphalos; omphalus; umbilicus
Context example:
she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton
Hypernyms ("bellybutton" is a kind of...):
point (the precise location of something; a spatially limited location)
Holonyms ("bellybutton" is a part of...):
abdomen; belly; stomach; venter (the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis)
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