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navel

noun

🔊/ˈneɪvl/

🔊/ˈneɪvl/

(also informal belly button)

(British English, informal tummy button)

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the small round part in the middle of the stomach, on the front of somebody's body, where the umbilical cord was cut at birth肚脐；脐
Topics Bodyc2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
Navel is used before these nouns:
orange
ring
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Word OriginOld English nafela, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch navel and German Nabel, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin umbo ‘boss of a shield’, umbilicus ‘navel’, and Greek omphalos ‘boss, navel’.