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Noun: navel  ney-vul
  1. 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"; "The omphalos is commonly known as the navel or belly button";
    - umbilicus, bellybutton [informal], belly button [informal], omphalos [literary]
     
  2. The centre point or middle of something
    "the Incas believed that Cuzco was the navel of the universe";
    - navel point

Sounds like: n

Derived forms: navels

Type of: center [US], centre [Brit, Cdn], midpoint, point

Part of: abdomen, belly, stomach, venter

Encyclopedia: Navel