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Meanings of omphalos in English
Synonyms
Examples for "navel"
Examples for "navel"
1
Some think the great toe is first formed; others affirm the navel.
2
It hangs from a simple bamboo rod suspended just below the navel.
3
Now the aliens' needle wasn't going into my navel but my cervix.
4
And you are free to cloud your folds, to bare the navel.
5
The indentation in the mound-top represented the navel in the Great Belly.
1
The umbilicus was five inches in diameter and three inches in length.
2
This procedure facilitates the vertical dissection of the rectum from the umbilicus.
3
Instead, with a sigh, she unplugged the cool-napper umbilicus and floated free.
4
When I lifted my burger a cheese umbilicus clung to the plate.
5
CLASS 6.-Fusionof two fetuses below the umbilicus into a common lower extremity.
1
Ben could feel its point dimpling his flesh just above his bellybutton.
2
Until his bellybutton pops out, poked out stiff as a little finger.
3
The tip of the small end should rest above your bellybutton.
4
Blood was pouring from the shallow vertical cut above his bellybutton.
5
He let go when it reached just below her bellybutton.
1
Up the street; up to the Omphalus, and beyond-whoshall say how far?
2
They separated directly in the Omphalus.
1
Even same thing in her belly button. It's better than Space Invaders.
2
Now bring the tails to just in front of your belly button.
3
She didn't want to give up on getting her belly button ring.
4
The one who'd chosen a belly button ring over a wedding ring.
5
Then dye your hair or get your belly button pierced or something.
Usage of omphalos in English
1
Paris to Venice Paris is the omphalos of Europe's night train services.
2
Delphi was called the omphalos or navel of the world, marked by a shapeless holy stone.
3
The Delphic omphalos-stone was cone, womb, and beehive.
4
He would certainly-thoughSir Thomas Browne denied it-displayan 'omphalos', yet no umbilical cord had ever attached him to a mother.
5
Time and again, in particular, I encountered two memories bright as sunlight in my mind, guarding the passage to and from that dark omphalos.
6
In fact, Gosse started to more formally organize his anti-evolutionary ideas shortly before Omphalos.
7
Neither theory attempts to solve this riddle, nor yet the riddle of the Omphalos.
8
That Gosse published Omphalos two years before On the Origin of Species was no accident.
9
But the girls do, cute little innies-andShip does as well, a truly whopping Omphalos.
10
Without a doubt, Philip Henry Gosse's Omphalos is one of the strangest books I have ever read.
11
Cornelia saw half-naked Numidian footmen thrusting back the crowd that bustled in the Omphalos-thegreat square where the two highroads met.
12
He wrote a book called Omphalos (Greek for navel), subtitled An Attempt to Undo the Geological Knot, in 1857.
13
In his work entitled Omphalos he developed the theory previously urged by Granville Penn, and asserted a new principle called "prochronism."
14
Classic readers will at once call to mind the appellation Omphalos or navel applied to the temple at Delphi (Pindar, Pyth., iv.
Frequent collocations
Omphalos through the time