umbilici
- plural of umbilicus.
Example Sentences
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To these staves, strings, known as "umbilici," were attached, to the ends of which bullae or weights were fixed.
Or, pursuing our peregrinations, we plunge suddenly into the abyss of origins, transformed for the moment into slumbering umbilici, skirting the shores of our nativity; or, ascending spine-wise, traverse the hierarchy of gifts.
From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson
The books when rolled up, were bound up with these umbilici, and were generally kept in cylindrical boxes or capsae, a term from which the Mediaeval "capsula," or book-cover was derived.
