NAVEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does navel mean? 

• NAVEL (noun)
  The noun NAVEL has 2 senses:

1. a scar where the umbilical cord was attached

2. the center point or middle of something

  Familiarity information: NAVEL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAVEL (noun)

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 ("navel" is a kind of...):

point (the precise location of something; a spatially limited location)

Holonyms ("navel" is a part of...):

abdomen; belly; stomach; venter (the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The center point or middle of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

navel; navel point

Context example:

the Incas believed that Cuzco was the navel of the universe

Hypernyms ("navel" is a kind of...):

center; centre; midpoint (a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure)

 Context examples 

Other common symptoms are a large tongue, large internal organs, and defects of the abdominal wall near the navel.

(Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, NCI Dictionary)