navel

  • 51Navel of the World (disambiguation) — The Navel of the World is a concept of a mythological center of the world or universe. Navel of the World may also refer to a number of real world locations: Baboquivari Peak Wilderness in Arizona, USA, according to the O’odham nation name of a… …

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  • 52navel orange — noun seedless orange enclosing a small secondary fruit at the apex • Hypernyms: ↑sweet orange * * * noun, pl ⋯ anges [count] : a kind of orange that does not have seeds * * * ˌnavel ˈorange 7 [navel orange navel oranges] …

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  • 53navel point — Nombril Nom bril, n. [F. nombril, for OF. lombril, i. e., ombril, with the article, a dim. fr. L. umbilicus the navel. See {Navel}.] (Her.) A point halfway between the fess point and the middle base point of an escutcheon; called also {navel… …

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  • 54navel orange — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms navel orange : singular navel orange plural navel oranges a type of orange that has no seeds …

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  • 55navel point — noun the center point or middle of something the Incas believed that Cuzco was the navel of the universe • Syn: ↑navel • Hypernyms: ↑center, ↑centre, ↑midpoint * * * noun see navel 3 …

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  • 56navel-gazing — noun literally, the contemplation of one s navel, which is an idiom usually meaning complacent self absorption • Syn: ↑omphaloskepsis • Hypernyms: ↑self absorption * * * ˈnavel gazing 7 [navel gazing] …

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  • 57navel-gazing — N UNCOUNT (disapproval) If you refer to an activity as navel gazing, you are critical of it because people are thinking about something for a long time but take no action on it. She dismisses the reform process as an exercise in collective navel… …

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  • 58navel-gazing — sitting and looking at your own navel, contemplating your own existence    Have you nothing better to do than to sit there navel gazing? No …

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  • 59navel-gazing — gaze at/contemplate (your) navel to spend too much time thinking about yourself and your own problems. He s a man of action and navel gazing has never been his style …

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  • 60navel orange — apelsininis citrinmedis statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Rūtinių šeimos medingas, maistinis, vaistinis nuodingas augalas (Citrus sinensis), auginamas atogrąžose ir paatogrąžiuose; jo vaisiai valgomi, iš jų gaminami gėrimai, kvapiosios… …

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