Definitions for navel

navel na·vel

Spelling: [ney-vuh l]
IPA: /ˈneɪ vəl/

Navel is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in navel (aelnv).

Definitions for navel

noun

  1. umbilicus (def 1).
  2. the central point or middle of any thing or place.
  3. Heraldry. nombril.

Origin of navel

before 900; Middle English; Old English nafela; cognate with Dutch navel, German Nabel, Old Norse nafli; akin to Sanskrit nābhīla, Latin umbilīcus, Greek omphalós

Examples for navel

It is often seen at the navel and sometimes in the groin as early as the second week.

They are fox-colored, with their navel on their back, towards the back part of their bodies.

If this is so, "el Cuzco" has the significance of "the navel" (of the World).

He picked up a navel orange, and pointing to the navel said, "What is that?"

The foam, designed to be injected into the navel, is composed of two liquid precursors.

Then again, in the human body the central point is naturally the navel.

The singer Tom Jones growled hits like “Delilah” with shirts sweatily slashed to the navel.

“Me neither,” Lohse says, gazing pityingly at his own navel.

Long before this, as a rule, the navel has to the child been an object of curiosity.

It was like no wound on Earth—raw, crazy pain which started like a burn at his navel.

Word Value for navel
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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