omphalus


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Noun1.omphalus - a scar where the umbilical cord was attachedomphalus - 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"
belly button, bellybutton, navel, omphalos, umbilicus
abdomen, belly, stomach, venter - the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
point - the precise location of something; a spatially limited location; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street"
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(53) The "Omphalus" argument is that God created the world with the appearance of age; this theory was promoted by the nineteenth-century naturalist Philip Henry Gosse in his Omphalos (1857).
Darwin and Dunya: Muslim Responses to Darwinian Evolution

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