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Umbilicate

Umbilicate \Um*bil"i*cate\, Umbilicated \Um*bil"i*ca`ted\, a.

  1. Depressed in the middle, like a navel, as a flower, fruit, or leaf; navel-shaped; having an umbilicus; as, an umbilicated smallpox vesicle.

  2. (Bot.) Supported by a stalk at the central point.

Wiktionary
umbilicate

a. 1 Having a navel 2 (context mycology of a mushroom etc. English) Having a small umbo in a central depression, or a depression in the center of the cap 3 (context botany English) Supported by a central stalk.

WordNet
umbilicate

adj. depressed like a naval

Usage examples of "umbilicate".

Need for food had created huge undersea cities and gardens which were umbilicated to these floating islands for purposes of drawing up what the undersea cities mined or raised and for sending down necessities, in turn.