0 the small round part in the middle of the stomach that is left after the umbilical cord (= the long tube of flesh joining the baby to its mother) has been cut at birth -- 肚脐
After the defeat at the polls, this fundamentally corporatist representation of the party's social profile reinforced its tendency to navel-gazing, the conviction that its main task was to find itself.
To some, such navel-gazing may seem super-uous.
At £90 it is probably outside of the personal budget of all but a tiny minority of navel gazers but it should find a place in institutional and departmental libraries.
Shortly thereafter, her navel began to bleed.
The juxtaposition of 27 navels does not yet make for a great continental project.
When she discusses diaphragmatic breathing, she focuses on the muscles in the front of the body between the navel and the ribs.
The center of the belly is marked with a navel indention.
Her lace- trimmed dress had rolled up past her navel, exposing her soft, lithe body.
