Omphalos

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The navel.
  • n. A central part; a focal point.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An ancient religious stone artifact, or baetylus, used to denote the direction of the "center" of the world.
  • n. The theological proposition that the world was created with certain indicia of a history which had not actually occurred (such as the humans who had never been connected to umbilical cords being created with navels).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The navel.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The navel or umbilicus.
  • n. In Gr. archæol.: A central boss, as on a shield, a bowl, etc.
  • n. A sacred stone in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, believed by the Greeks to mark the “navel” or exact center-point of the earth.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a scar where the umbilical cord was attached
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    point