Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Navel \Na"vel\ (n[=a]"v'l), n. [AS. nafela, fr. nafu nave; akin to D. navel, G. nabel, OHG. nabolo, Icel. nafli, Dan. navle, Sw. nafle, L. umbilicus, Gr. 'omfalo`s, Skr. n[=a]bh[=i]la. [root]260. See Nave hub, and cf. Omphalic, Nombril, Umbilical.]
(Anat.) A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus; called also belly button in humans. See Umbilicus.
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The central part or point of anything; the middle.
Within the navel of this hideous wood, Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells.
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(Gun.) An eye on the under side of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.
Navel gall, a bruise on the top of the chine of the back of a horse, behind the saddle.
--Johnson.Navel point. (Her.) Same as Nombril.
bellybutton \bel"ly*but`ton\, belly button \bel"ly but`ton\, n. The depression in the middle of the abdomen in humans left as a residue of the umbilical cord; the umbilicus; the navel[1].
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context informal English) The navel.
Wikipedia
Belly button (or "bellybutton") is a colloquial term for the navel; as a proper noun, it may refer to:
- "Belly Button", a song from the Silly Songs with Larry segment of VeggieTales
- Bellybutton (album), the debut album from the band Jellyfish
- The Bellybuttons, a comic book series by the French-Canadian team Dubuc and Delaf
Usage examples of "belly button".
A ragged scar nearly bisected his chest and stomach, curving in a vicious half-moon around his belly button and sinking towards his groin.
His voice was steady and kind and not at all that of a man having most of his blood channeled south of his belly button.
He screwed his mouth into the shape of a belly button and then let it fall back.
Its lower part was that of a gargantuan python with white and purple markings, and the upper part was a woman's from the belly button up.
It clung to the thick bearlike shoulders, and was stretched so tightly over his bulging paunch and so transparent with wetness, that you could see the deep dark pit of his belly button from the sidelines.
A tsunami raged through her body, the violent wave rushing over her nerve endings as she took a quick peek at his belly button to see if he&rsquo.
I looked into the solid brown of his eyes, traced the edge of his jaw with my gaze, the fullness of his lips, the curve of his throat, the spread of his shoulders, the way his hair fell around him, catching the early morning light, bringing out shades of gold and copper in his hair, the swell of his chest, his nipples already dark and hard, the flat line of his stomach with that thin, dark line of hair that went from his belly button to .
The strength of his thighs, the loose swelling of his groin, skin there slightly darker in color than the rest of him, the line of black hair that traced upward, around his belly button, to the smooth lines of his chest with the pale circles of his nipples, and the flat whiteness of the cross-shaped burn scar.