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Definition of navel noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

navel

noun

/ˈneɪvl/

/ˈneɪvl/

(also informal belly button)

(British English, informal tummy button)

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the small round part in the middle of the stomach, on the front of somebody's body, where the umbilical cord was cut at birthTopics Bodyc2
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Navel is used before these nouns:
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Word OriginOld English nafela, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch navel and German Nabel, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin umbo ‘boss of a shield’, umbilicus ‘navel’, and Greek omphalos ‘boss, navel’.

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