navel

«navel» in Mova's school dictionary: The small hollow or bump in the middle of your tummy… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a navel, navels)

meaning for a pupil

1) The small hollow or bump in the middle of your tummy, left where the umbilical cord was joined before you were born; your belly button. tree →

2) (figurative) The centre of something, as in "the navel of the world". tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in science and health (the umbilical cord carries food and oxygen from mother to baby) and in everyday talk, though children usually say "belly button". Phrases: "navel orange" (an orange with a little bump like a navel), "navel-gazing" (thinking too much about yourself).

examples

• Your navel is where the umbilical cord was. tree →
• Most people call the navel a belly button. tree →
• A navel orange has a small bump at one end. tree →
• Some people have an "innie" navel and some an "outie". tree →
• Mammals have navels, but birds hatched from eggs do not. tree →
• Stop navel-gazing and help us! tree →
• The yoga teacher told us to breathe into the navel. tree →

note

Homophone trap: "naval" (to do with a navy and ships) sounds the same but is spelled with an "a". Countable.

In the corpora

• It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «navel» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.