navels
- 1Plural of navel.
The sculptor carved precise navels into each of the marble figures.
These new swimsuits leave the wearers' navels exposed.
Note
A regular plural that carries every sense of the singular: belly buttons, navel oranges piled at a fruit stall, and, historically, the eyes on a carronade's underside that secured it to its carriage. The same spelling also serves the rare literary verb, as in a village that navels the valley, meaning it sits at the landscape's center. Context, not form, tells them apart.
navels is a form of navel
navel, noun: The small hollow or knob in the middle of the belly of a placental mammal, marking where the umbilical cord was attached before birth. Full entry
- Forms
- navelnavels plural
- Spelling
- navel → navels: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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