umbilical cord
noun/ʌmˈbɪlɪkl kɔːd/
/ʌmˈbɪlɪkl kɔːrd/
- a long piece of tissue that connects a baby to its mother before it is born and is cut at the moment of birthWordfinderTopics Life stagesc2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + umbilical cord
- clamp
- cut
- tie
- …
- be twisted around somebody’s neck
- be wound around somebody’s neck
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