Usually means: Navel or belly button area.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word umbilicus:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. umbilicus: Merriam-Webster
  2. umbilicus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. umbilicus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. umbilicus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. umbilicus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Umbilicus, umbilicus: Wordnik
  7. umbilicus: Wiktionary
  8. umbilicus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. umbilicus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. umbilicus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. umbilicus: Dictionary.com
  12. Umbilicus (genus), Umbilicus (mollusc), Umbilicus (mollusk), Umbilicus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Umbilicus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. umbilicus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. umbilicus: Rhymezone
  16. Umbilicus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. umbilicus: FreeDictionary.org
  18. umbilicus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. umbilicus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Umbilicus (disambiguation), umbilicus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. umbilicus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Umbilicus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Umbilicus: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Umbilicus: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  8. Umbilicus (disambiguation), umbilicus: Medical dictionary
  9. Umbilicus: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. umbilicus: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See umbilici as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy) navel
noun:  (botany) hilum
noun:  (zoology) A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
noun:  (zoology) Either of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather.
noun:  (space science) A tube connecting an astronaut or spacecraft to the mothership, through which supplies and samples can be transferred.
noun:  (geometry, obsolete) One of the foci of an ellipse or other curve.
noun:  (geometry) A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other.
noun:  (historical) An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.

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