Umbilicus

(I-IV); the second, "De judiciis", seven books (V-XI); the third, "De rebus", eight books (XII-XIX); the fourth, "Umbilicus", eight books

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

Of course I enjoy such games—even early on I imagined the parched, mana-starved earth left behind after I cast a devastating Armageddon spell, or the dark stirrings of the eldritch Umbilicus repeatedly calling my Bone Shredder minion back to its aetheric womb.

Sharing a World, Part II David Craddock 2009

Naturally, this Umbilicus of the Western World set the fashions in theology, literature, dress, and manners for all New England, and any one who had made a trip to Boston was venerated as a kind of travelled wonder, and forever after regarded as an authority upon all mooted points of general interest.

The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 Various

In other instances the peltate leaves become more or less hollow, constituting broad ascidia as in the case of the crassulaceous genus _Umbilicus_.

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

Rostra Julia, and that the queer fragment of masonry by the arch is supposed to be the 'Umbilicus,' the centre of the Roman world.

Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome 1881

They have lately met with more rolls of Papyri of different lengths and sizes, some with the _Umbilicus_ remaining in them: the greater part are Greek in small capitals ....

The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

Umbilicus, a place among the Phli* alians, lb called, i.

The Description of Greece 1794

Spira convexa, obtusa. jiperiura latior quam longa/Umbilicus nullus. hortensis.

Transactions of the Linnean Society 1791

Lepidium Campestre (field pepper-wort), Cotyledon Umbilicus (wall penny-wort).”

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter