Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having a central mark or depression resembling a navel.
  • adjective Having a navel.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To become umbilicate.
  • Shaped like a navel; resembling a navel, as being round and depressed or concave, or as being focal or central, as some pit or depression; umbilicated; umbiliform.
  • Having an umbilicus or umbilicated formation, as a shell or a feather, or marks of the sculpture of an insect; pitted, as a pustule.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Depressed in the middle, like a navel, as a flower, fruit, or leaf; navel-shaped; having an umbilicus.
  • adjective (Bot.) Supported by a stalk at the central point.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having a navel
  • adjective mycology Having a small umbo in a central depression, or a depression in the center of the cap
  • adjective botany Supported by a central stalk.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective depressed like a navel

Etymologies

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Latin umbilicatus.

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