umbilicate

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   depressed like a navel

   Similarconcave

Questions about umbilicate

What does umbilicate mean?

umbilicate means "depressed like a navel".

How many syllables are in umbilicate?

umbilicate has 4 syllables and divides as um-bi-li-cate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is umbilicate a common word?

umbilicate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.