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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The omphalos, umbilicus, or navel.
- noun In botany, same as
omphalodium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The central part of the hilum of a seed, through which the nutrient vessels pass into the rhaphe or the chalaza; -- called also
omphalodium .
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- noun botany The
central part of thehilum of aseed , through which thenutrient vessels pass into therhaphe orchalaza .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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