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omphalos
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun omphalos has 1 sense
- omphalos(n = noun.body) belly button, bellybutton, navel, omphalus, umbilicus - a scar where the umbilical cord was attached; "you were not supposed to show your navel on television"; "they argued whether or not Adam had a navel"; "she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton" is a part of abdomen, belly, stomach, venter
is a kind of point
OXFORD DICTIONARY
omphalos, n. Gk Antiq.
1 a conical stone (esp. that at Delphi) representing the navel of the earth.
2 a boss on a shield.
3 a centre or hub.
1 a conical stone (esp. that at Delphi) representing the navel of the earth.
2 a boss on a shield.
3 a centre or hub.
Etymology
Gk, = navel, boss, hub
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omphalos
Middle
N middle, midst, mediety, mean, medium, middle term, center &c, mid-course, mezzo termine, juste milieu, halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos, nucleus, nucleolus, equidistance, bisection, half distance, equator, diaphragm, midriff, intermediate, middle, medial, mesial, mean, mid, median, average, middlemost, midmost, mediate, intermediate, equidistant, central, mediterranean, equatorial, homocentric, in the middle, midway, halfway, midships, amidships, in medias res.
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