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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The omphalos, umbilicus, or navel.
  • noun In botany, same as omphalodium.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The central part of the hilum of a seed, through which the nutrient vessels pass into the rhaphe or the chalaza; -- called also omphalodium.

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  • noun botany The central part of the hilum of a seed, through which the nutrient vessels pass into the rhaphe or chalaza.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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