how to pronounce umbilicus

/ʌmˈbɪl.ɪ.kəs/

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umbilicus is pronounced in four syllables

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meanings of umbilicus

noun:

A tube connecting an astronaut or spacecraft to the mothership, through which supplies and samples can be transferred.
One of the foci of an ellipse or other curve.
Navel.
An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.
A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other.
Hilum.
Either of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather.
A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.

umbilicus frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word umbilicus occurs in english on average 0.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics umbilicus can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that umbilicus can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;

words with pronunciation similar to umbilicus

umbilical