umbil1caria

[Lat. umbilicaris = pertaining to the navel.] Bot . A synonym of Gyrophora (q. v.). um-bil-1-cate, um-bil-1-cat-ed, a. [Lat. um bilicus =a navel.] *I. Ord. Lang .: Navel-shaped; depre ed in middle like a navel. II. Technically : the 1. Bot .: Hollowed like the navel. The same as PELTATE (q. v.). 2. Zool .: A term applied to those univalve shells which have the axis, around which the whorls are coiled, open or hollow. The perforation may be a mere fi ure, as in the Lacuna; or it may be filled up by a shelly deposit, as in many species of Natica. um-bil-1-cus, s . [Lat.=the navel; allied to Gr. omphalos the navel; Lat. umbo a bo ; O. Fr. umbilic ; Ital. umbilico , ombelico , bellico , bilico ; Sp. ombligo ; Port. umbigo, embigo ; Sansc. náthi = the navel (q. v.).] 1. Anat .: The navel (q. v.). *2. Antiq .: An ornamental or painted bo or ball fastened on each end of the sticks on which manuscripts were rolled. 3. Botany : (1) The same as HILUM (q. v.). (2) A genus of Cra ulese. Leaves fleshy, race mose, white or yellow; calyx five-parted; corolla campanulate; stamens ten, inserted in the corolla; nectariferous scales five; carpels five. The species grow in dry stony places, and are sometimes planted in rockeries. Umbilicus pendu lin us is the same as Cotyledon umbilicus . [COTYLEDON, I. 1.] 4. Geom.: A term used by the older geometers as synonymous with focus; but, in modern works, a point on a surface through which all lines of curvature pa . 5. Zool .: The aperture of the axis near the mouth of some univalve shells. (UMBILICATED, II. 2.] *um'-ble, s . [UMBLES.] To eat umble - pie (commonly corrupted into to eat humble - pie ): [HUMBLE-PIE,.]