Belly Button (Noun)
Meaning
A scar where the umbilical cord was attached; "you were not supposed to show your navel on television"; "they argued whether or not Adam had a navel"; "she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton".
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- After the cesarean section, her belly button was not perfectly rounded due to the incision made for the operation.
- Historically in many societies it was considered immodest for a woman to show her belly button in public.
- It's unlikely the surgeons were worried about keeping her belly button intact after such an intense accident.
- There is still some debate as to whether the very first human would have had a belly button if we believe the story of Adam and Eve.
- A navel piercing near her belly button became her first visible act of teenage rebellion.