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Definition of "umbilicate" [um•bil•i•cate]

  • Having a central mark or depression resembling a navel. (adjective)
  • Having a navel. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "umbilicate" in a sentence
  • "+Cap+ yellow when moist, 1 to 2 inches broad, umbilicate, then funnel-shaped, wrinkled on the surface, at length wavy at margin."
  • "Pileus, scaly or warted.campanulate. silky, cracked or fibrillose.umbonate. umbilicate. striate."
  • "It is more erect, the branching more open, and the caps at the ends of the branches are more or less circular and umbilicate."
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